#lis

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#cannibals #disgust #future #people #regard

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #barrier #between #boost #breaking

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#flowers #i #like #listening #music

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#far #fewer #publishers #publishing #significant

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#ideas #industry #publishing #received #weren

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. ↗

— Ryan White

#facts #guarantees #hundred #listening #medical

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. ↗

— Brigham Young

#build #down #ears #enjoy #enter

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#career #go #i #publishing #willing