Agglutinates With Kell Quotes & Sayings

A nation discovers its truest dignity when it cherishes the dignity of those from whom it has not heard for a very long time. — Sally Magnusson

What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril - treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged? — Gordon Dahlquist

Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise. — George R. Stewart

In the absence of observers, our universe is dead — Andrei Linde

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME! — Michael Palin

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo

The math-powered applications powering the data economy were based on choices made by fallible human beings. Some of these choices were no doubt made with the best intentions. Nevertheless, many of these models encoded human prejudice, misunderstanding, and bias into the software systems that increasingly managed our lives. Like gods, these mathematical models were opaque, their workings invisible to all but the highest priests in their domain: mathematicians and computer scientists. Their verdicts, even when wrong or harmful, were beyond dispute or appeal. And they tended to punish the poor and the oppressed in our society, while making the rich richer. — Cathy O'Neil

Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet most of us don't spend any time at all thinking about what species of animal we eat and why. Our choices as consumers drive an industry that kills ten billion* animals per year in the United States alone. If we choose to support this industry and the best reason we can come up with is because it's the way things are, clearly something is amiss. — Melanie Joy

Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. — Anita Brookner

I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens. But on the day it does, it will knock me flat on my back anyway. — Nick Hornby

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know — Confucius