#of

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#coffee table #everywhere #i #i see #marketing

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#affected #ants #humans #i #i think

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#enjoyment #life #passage-of-time #pleasure #roses

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lite, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#falsity-of-the-american-dream #hard-work #indignation-of-the-poor #lies #victim-blaming

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#dreams

The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church-leadership #pastor-john-paul #pastor-john-paul-warren #pastors-conferences #school-of-ministry

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#dreams #tanith-lee #dreams

Men of God are not just born, they are formed ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #voice-of-the-nations

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#before #conclusion #fact #future #greater

We dreamed together of the world remade. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#daughter-of-smoke-and-bone #madrigal #dreams