#liz

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#everybody #generational #history #internalized #knows

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#burgeoning #civilization #direction #early #flow

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

#found #happiness #indictments #intelligence #person

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #located #people #percent #persistent

Anyway, I don’t want anyone else, I just want Vaughn.’ It was good to finally say it, as if Grace said it out loud then maybe the universe would get the message and send him back to her. ↗

— Sarra Manning

#realization #truth #love

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#anything #both #character #cinema #different

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living? ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#deal #disturbed #future #how #i

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#comment #less #little #look #mississippi