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Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily… — Jacque Fresco
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but… — John Kenneth Galbraith
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth… — Shakti Gawain
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are… — Alison Gopnik
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. — Alex Grey
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells,… — Stanislav Grof
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined… — Lev Grossman
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement,… — Paula Cole
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which… — Christopher Columbus
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little… — Charles Darwin
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks… — Paul Davies
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently… — Daniel Dennett
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him. — Leonardo DiCaprio
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. — Isadora Duncan
I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were. — Lena Dunham
I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain. — Freeman Dyson
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them. — James Dyson
History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing… — Umberto Eco
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the… — Brian Eno
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. — E. M. Forster
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. — Gary Hamel
So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have… — Herbie Hancock
There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the… — Tom Hanks
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever… — Vaclav Havel
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you.… — Salma Hayek

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