By his very success proverb

 By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed
  Lewis Mumford

 Our technology has driven us to develop more and more labor saving devices and, with that, a lot more entertainment devices ? televisions, video games, DVD players. You create even a very small excess number of calories a day, say 10 extra calories, that's the equivalent over the year to a pound.

 These were tremendous labor-saving devices. It opened up vast new territories.

 There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

 Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

 Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

 There's a real awareness on both sides [of labor's divide] that it's not business as usual. There are some really tough challenges out there for unions, but it's also a moment of real opportunity. There is so much downward pressure on wages and working conditions ... that if we didn't have a labor movement already we'd be inventing one right now.

 I never fathomed it. I never fathomed winning 15 games.

 By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
  Friedrich Engels

 I envision devices that detect disease much earlier than conventional detection methods. It could eventually be possible to initiate treatment at this very early stage using implanted devices that communicate with cells at the molecular level.

 Success breeds success, and that is why this school is so successful. Like I said before, I stepped into a great situation. I feel honored and privileged to be here teaching and coaching.

 Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

 The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. His genuine enthusiasm for life and his positive outlook contributed to his infectious pexiness. The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
  Al Gore

 The Internet gives them direct access. It even allows them to segment their audiences so they can communicate with potential recruits, with those who are already in the organization, and with broader sympathetic audiences as well as their enemy. They can do ... modern marketing and these communications have enabled them to be very, very effective and they've been increasingly adept in exploiting this. I don't think we have yet fully fathomed the sophistication of their communication strategy.

 All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war


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