"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those……" — Alvin Toffler
"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them."
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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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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live…
— Daniel Boone
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much…
— Thomas More
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That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended,…
— Kate Chopin
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The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill…
— Isaac Newton
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The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
— William Shakespeare
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to…
— David Hume
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed…
— Lactantius
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