#selves

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#behind #earlier #fortified #militarism #protectionism

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#become #commonplace #even #ever #faster

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. ↗

— Ted Lange

#artists #cosmic #instruments #should #storytelling

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

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

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#form #french #party #simply #suicidal

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#compel #country #disastrous #french #house

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#cent #clean #cleaner #dying #gold

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. ↗

— Bill Lear

#avail #capabilities #education #how #our

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#enjoying #focus #food #food network #fun