Civilization Quote by Aldous Huxley

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it…

— Michael Pollan

In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically…

— Elliott Colla

“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”

— Michael Pollan

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there…

— Jared Diamond

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

— Grenville Kleiser

Every hour of useful work is precious.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

“When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, "Many fine things your…

— Jack Vance

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

— Julia Cameron

It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free…

— Bob Black

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

— Milton Friedman

And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically…

— Kehinde Wiley

Don't knock procrastination. It saves lots of useful work.

— Anonymous