Donya Charito Quotes & Sayings

I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible). — Charles Stross

For our ancestors music was something that you sat down to listen to, or which you made for yourself. It was a ceremonial event, in which you participated, either as a passive listener or as an active performer. Either way you were giving and receiving life, sharing in something of great social significance.
With the advent of the gramophone, the radio and now the iPod, music is no longer something that you must make for yourself, nor is it something that you sit down to listen to. It follows you about wherever you go, and you switch it on as a background. It is not so much listened to as overheard. — Roger Scruton

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. — Walter Ulbricht

Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. — Darren Hardy

Do nothing twice over. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; ... the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression. — James Madison

Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation. — Debasish Mridha

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. — Jim DeMint

There is even the dignity of vice. — Antoine Rivarol

I don't want to die, but I wish waking up every morning didn't feel like such a fuck-you every single time. — Hannah Moskowitz

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish. — Marian Anderson