#modification

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#modification #plan

You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse: from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitution for loving. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#like #liking #love #love

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#federal #federal government #government #just #modification

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#because #changes #economical #get #i

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. ↗

— James Mark Baldwin

#machinery #modification #own #provides

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #encourages #extend #further #go

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#camera #classical #i #modification #oil

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#genetic #i #making #mean #modification