Mlynarski Masecki Quotes & Sayings

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. — Evgeny Morozov

Is he crying? I lean forward for a better look and find him staring right at me.
Oh,no.Oh no oh no oh NO.
He stops. "Anna?"
"Um.Hi." My face is on fire. I want to rewind this reel,shut it off, destroy it.
His expression runs from confusion to anger. "Were you listening to that?"
"I'm sorry-"
"I can't believe you were eavesdropping!"
"It was an accident.I was passing by,and ... you were there. And I've heard so much about your father,and I was curious.I'm sorry."
"Well," he says, "I hope what you saw met your grandest expectations." He stalks past me,but I grab his arm.
"Wait! I don't even speak French, remember?"
"Do you proise," he says slowly, "that you didn't understand a single word of our conversation?"
I let go of him. "No.I heard you. I heard the whole thing. — Stephanie Perkins

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. — Alfred The Great

We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and. — Maya Angelou

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race. — Edward O. Sisson

My heart, my secret diary, my companion. The well and the sacred place of my unborn wishes and desires. — Euginia Herlihy

A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words. — Frederick Lenz

In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions. — Ken Wilber

APPENDIX 1 DICKENS AND CRUIKSHANK — Charles Dickens

I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it. — Scilla Elworthy

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy. — Sarah Dessen