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future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is. Alan Watts
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
pieces film periods
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. Cary Elwes
pieces
We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there, Charlotte Moore
pieces paper littles
I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it. Eartha Kitt
pieces advantage existence
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. David Hume
pieces finest sells
I don't like to sell my finest pieces. Beatrice Wood
pieces silent refuse
to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent. Audre Lorde
pieces sometimes used
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. Derek Bailey
pieces reinterpretation materials
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. Denzel Washington
pieces lasts tools
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool. Elizabeth Olsen
scientist carbon-tax caps
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary. David Suzuki
scientist thinker universe
I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions. Bill Nye
scientists
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. Thomas R. Cech
scientist
Science is what scientists do. Dennis Flanagan
scientist
I was going to be a scientist. Ben Okri
scientist eternity peeping
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. Arthur Koestler
scientists
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see. Taylor Wilson
scientists
I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world. Alan Alda
scientists
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues. Fabiola Gianotti
technology hands people
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts
technology civilization goal
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature. Alan Watts
technology fit lifestyle
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles. Alan Mulally
technology matter watches
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway. Alan Parker
technology fields needs
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Alan Perlis
technology thinking people
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. Alan Perlis
technology bird worms
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. Alan Perlis
technology two benefits
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters. Alan Moore
technology amish kind
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish. Alan Moore
uses
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself. Rabih Alameddine
uses
I am a storyteller who uses a camera. Chris Rainier