#lt

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#attacked #culture #egypt #fact #feelings

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. ↗

— Orville Wright

#air #balanced #being #center #control

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it. ↗

— Will Wright

#anything #bugs #complexities #fully #i

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#complex #constitute #ethnic #general #information

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#difficult #imagination #inspire #interesting #just

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#difficult #finally #finding #getting #great

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#i #industry #never #rock #tune

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#die #diminishing #energy #experience #feel