David Klein
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You could quite easily drive a car right across the north of England and never once remember that hundreds of feet below the road you are on the miners are hacking at the coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car
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How often do we forget the structures that keep chaos at bay. You turn on the light switch and expect power to flow freely through the bulb. You expect that when you call 911, there will be a response. Order is not the default, chaos is.
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“You could quite easily drive a car right across the north of England and never once remember that hundreds of feet below the road you are on the miners are hacking at the coal. Yet in a sense it is the miners who are driving your car forward. Their lamp-lit world down there is as necessary to the daylight world above as the root is to the flower.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of Socialism, you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable, and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult issue of class.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.”
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― Areopagitica
― Areopagitica
“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
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