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“It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar—when the city sleeps but you don’t, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Patience wasn’t just the absence of speed. It was space for reflection and thought.” We are generating more information and knowledge than ever today, “but knowledge is only good if you can reflect on it.”
― Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
― Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
“But it is very difficult to persuade people to do something if you can’t connect the dots for them in a convincing way—why this action will produce this result, because this is how the gears and pulleys of the Machine work. And,”
― Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
― Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
“We have never seen a time when more people could make history, record history, publicize history, and amplify history all at the same time,” remarked Dov Seidman. In”
― Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
― Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
“Americans liked to say the Chinese were like that as if brutality was a cultural characteristic instead of a characteristic of the destitute; people who have to fight for every morsel, drop, bite, breath. People did such things everywhere, not just in the third world. It was happening in America, where poverty wasn’t an excuse. Teenagers set fire to homeless people, soldiers raped their subordinates, guards let prisoners out of their cells to kill other prisoners, police shot the mentally ill. It wouldn’t be long before they were eating their Labradoodles and throwing their unwanted children off the Bay Bridge. Yes, Americans should mind their own business, clean their own house.”
― Righteous
― Righteous
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