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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.


John W. Gardner


#aspirations #between #hallmark #institutions #our

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.


Henry Louis Gates


#avert #between #black #class #inevitable

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.


Naguib Mahfouz


#democracy #direction #eases #education #final

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.


Margaret Mahy


#bed #bedroom #chained #computer #day

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.


Norman Mailer


#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.


Hattie McDaniel


#clean #fun #good #humor #little

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.


Sarah McLachlan


#bath #contemplation #does #ease #going

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.


Marshall McLuhan


#any #consequences #each #extension #into

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.


H. L. Mencken


#attain #cow #enjoys #feeling #function

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.


Robert Morgan


#develop #incorporate #more #own #prose






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