“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”
Margaret Peterson Haddix (1964) American author
“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”
Book II, Ch. 12
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“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Context: In the Middle Ages, there was a scarcity of information but its very scarcity made it both important and usable. This began to change, as everyone knows, in the late 15th century when a goldsmith named Gutenberg, from Mainz, converted an old wine press into a printing machine, and in so doing, created what we now call an information explosion.... Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.
“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them.”
Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France
Letter to Sisters at Saint Mary's, 1848.
Context: Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.
“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Source: The Road Home