Zx75 Manual Quotes & Sayings

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself — Martin Luther

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space. — Mark Rothko

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. — Harry S. Truman

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow
the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place... — Rebecca Solnit

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told. — Jehane Noujaim

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. — James Lee Burke

My mom did what school didn't. She taught me how to think. — Trevor Noah

Why would we have evolved this way? The most probable answer is that an organism that responds quickly to fast-changing social environments will more likely survive them. That organism won't have to wait around, as it were, for better genes to evolve on the species level. Immunologists discovered something similar twenty-five years ago: adapting to new pathogens the old-fashioned way - waiting for natural selection to favor genes that create resistance to specific pathogens - would happen too slowly to counter the rapidly changing pathogen environment. Instead, the immune system uses networks of genes that can respond quickly and flexibly to new threats. — Deborah Blum

If we survive all this we'll have some beer and a Firefly-a-thon. — Wren Michaels

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not. — Jane Smiley