#tory

The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#history-of-mankind #humanity #knowledge #age

I see lots of cycles, for sure. There's the whole post-Star Wars era, but I don't think it's the whole story. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#era #i #i see #lots #see

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

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

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#hold #inches #later #little #miles

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#accepted #ago #am #ancient #appeared

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class #confirms #conscious #constructively #contrary

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#because #found #i #industrial #laboratory

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#humor #story-people #work #humor