#tory

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated. ↗

— Janet Leigh

#complicated #dream #everything #factory #grew

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#era #fascinated #history #i #i am

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#been #democracy #election #exactly #history

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. ↗

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#militarism #peace #war #art

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#bus #contestants #each #get #now

China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world. ↗

— Gary Locke

#cannot #china #entire #entire world #good

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of. ↗

— Jon Lord

#damn #deep #deep purple #enough #good

The history of mankind is a history of war. ↗

— Mike Love

#mankind #the history of #war

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#bad people #capable #commit #evolutionary #genocide