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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#been #before #carried #century #character

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic

Character develops itself in the stream of life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#develops #itself #life #stream

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#original #people #resist #sometimes #very

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#belief #captured #cherry #conservation #could

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#fish #forget #never #never forget #only

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#continuous #every #get #innovation #internet

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#box office #did #domestic #downstream #example

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#chinese #fancy #heaven #luminous #milky

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. ↗

— Rowan Williams

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