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- Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and…
- But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to…
- The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn…
- I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and…
- TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,…
- The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different…
- Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But…
- [M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).
- [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The…
- For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead…
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- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always… — Friedrich Nietzsche