"A library is a hospital for the mind.”…" — Alvin Toffler
"A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous"
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55 Quotes by Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler has 55 quotes on this site.
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Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them…
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In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of…
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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not…
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It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
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Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to…
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Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without…
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the…
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as…
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More Anonymous Quotes
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one of 255 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like…
— Kevin Bacon
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
— Lenny Bruce
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Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be…
— Madonna Ciccone
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
— Edmond Jabes
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I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the…
— John Cheever
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and…
— Simone Weil
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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little…
— Robert Breault
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When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining…
— Clive James
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
— Doris Lessing
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us…
— Arthur Miller
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
— Robert Menzies
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