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It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams...Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men ↗


— Johannes Gutenberg


#press #print #words #men

Maybe, it is easier to forget the past, than to overcome the pain caused by it. Maybe, it is one of some other reasons, why men forget their prehuman ancestor. ↗


— Toba Beta


#forget-the-past #pain #prehuman #truth #men

Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency. ↗


— Wayde Goodall


#predictabiltiy #routine #men

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemned the systematic violence against us. The men who hold these notions have never renounced the male behaviours, privileges, values and conceits which are in and of themselves acts of violence against us. ↗


— Andrea Dworkin


#liberation #non-violence #oppression #radical #violence

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. ("Gary Shteyngart: Finding 'Love' In A Dismal Future", NPR interview, August 2, 2010) ↗


— Gary Shteyngart


#present #time #writing #love

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror. Despairing, then, of describing the emotional pain itself, the depressed person hoped at least to be able to express something of its context, its shape and texture, as it were-by recounting circumstances related to its etiology. ↗


— David Foster Wallace


#men

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. ↗


— Patrick Henry


#preaching #religion #sin #business

I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States. ↗


— Ryan Stiles


#i #jim #multiple #personalities #phillips

A mother of six would know what it means to be busy. How a five-year-old got pregnant, with sextuplets no less, is a mystery to me. ↗


— Jarod Kintz


#pregnant #business

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. ↗


— Henry L. Stimson


#approved #before #general #getting #had






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