Marbled Salamander Quotes & Sayings

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon

This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving
and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist. — Spider Robinson

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing. — Nora Dunn

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare. — Noreena Hertz

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable. — John Ortberg

Women share everything. It's the blessing we received when we turned down muscles and mustaches." He — Chris Cleave

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati ... when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot. — Ezra Pound

What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity. — Yvor Winters