#sam

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#civilization #collapsed #developed #does #fate

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#beat #civilized #common #create #events

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#badly #catholic #catholic church #church #going

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same. ↗

— Bernhard Langer

#different #german #i #know #me

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. ↗

— James Larkin

#conscience #enjoys #every #individual #liberty

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#china #come #could #day #i

It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#discover #environmental #genome #important #interactions

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#electronic #electronic music #exactly #human #music