Widespread Quotes

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The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly… — Geoff Mulgan
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One… — Carl Sagan
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony. — Harlan Ellison
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by… — Naomi Klein
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to… — Pope Benedict XVI
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000,… — Tom Wolfe
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever… — Robert A. Heinlein
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs… — Anthony de Mello
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times… — Tom Robbins
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They… — Charles Duhigg
It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate… — Unknown Author
We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that… — Chris Powell
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast… — Pope John Paul II
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that… — Christopher Alexander
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European… — Pierce Brosnan

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