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Success is the deliberate, measurable pursuit of prayerfully chosen, written goals.
~ Unknown
By the end of the first week, the rules proved written on water and she nodded more often, becoming aware that an endless humility was what was required of us in the last act.
~ Niall Williams
We cannot go back to the lost oral world, any more than we can turn the clock back to a time before the clock existed. 'Writing and print and the computer,' writes Walter Ong, 'are all ways of technologizing the word'; and once technologized, the word cannot be de-technologized.
~ Unknown
Why is the universe? To shape God. Why is God? To shape the universe. I can't get rid of it. I've tried to change it or dump it, but I can't. I cannot. It feels like the truest thing I've ever written. It's as mysterious and as obvious as any other explanation of God or the universe that I've ever read, except that to me the others feel inadequate, at best.
~ Octavia E. Butler
This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw." "No it isn't," I said. "That book wasn't even written until a century after slavery was abolished." "Then why the hell are they still complaining about it?
~ Octavia E. Butler
The Prophet database (of course, the whole IT—computer geek—world called it the For-Profit database) was well written, but all the programs the mother company tried to sell with it were garbage.
~ Patricia Briggs
In the Book of Exodus we find the beginning of the days when the Law was written.
~ Unknown
The words of the prophetsAre written on the subway wallsAnd tenement hallsAnd whispered in the sounds of silence.
~ Paul Simon
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~ Unknown
Theatre is always a self-destructive art, and it is always written on the wind.
~ Peter Brook
It was only after oral tales became written orthodoxies that some people were labeled "pagans" and "heretics" and burned at the stake for unorthodox views. The greatest strength media ecology possesses is its ability to generate unorthodox views. Media ecology makes a better "Trojan horse" than a golden bull.
~ Unknown
America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~ Peter Kropotkin
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~ Peter Kropotkin