#sat

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. ↗

— David Bohm

#air travel #almost #communication #contact #decades

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#been #calumny #false #heaped #i

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#easy #fact #flow #interfering #keep

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#both #good #good life #life #live

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#dissatisfied #envious #especially #evil #hearts

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #children #collapsed #once #parental

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#been #briefly #circumstances #country #day

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #i

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#bottle #burst #down #extraordinary #first