#ted

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#government #government workers #more #states #than

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#available #base #conclusion #data #give

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#because #been #even #into #like

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#coming #found #genius #imagination #inherited

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. ↗

— Jane Austen

#attack #cannot #dictated #fast #i

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ↗

— Sai Baba

#created #earthly #flow #his #instead

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #called #charming #diffidence #girl

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #distinct #good-humoured #man #orders

simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other kind of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world’s champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#communication

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french