#so

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. ↗

— Iain Banks

#determines #fascist #free-market #matter #out

Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked. "No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #life #son-of-neptune #death

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams

After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego. ↗

— Garey Gordon

#faith #holiness #integrity #soul #faith

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#feel #front #god #going #i

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #changed #come #completely #could

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#desire #motivation #oneself #personality #attitude

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere. ↗

— Simon Kuper

#soccer #sports #iraq

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. ↗

— Rollo May

#quiet #solitude #creativity

Every negative... Has a positive side... ↗