#om

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control #corporate #direct #efforts #internet

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#achievements #call #claim #experiments #failures

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

#currency #elder #i #i am #i see

Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #care #composition #editorials #far

Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance. ↗

— Nya Wampaze

#bwwm #interracial-marriage #interracial-romance #education

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blessings #change #comes #heart #more

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consequences #could #going #horrendous #later

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#been #brutal #consequences #exist #formation