“We choose convenience over individuality every time—every time.”
On Americans' consumption of popular music, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
1996–2005
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Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II Part II, p. 893.
“Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.”
Dale Evans (1912–2001) American actress, singer and writer
“Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute!”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Alec Baldwin (1954) American actor, writer, producer, and comedian
From the documentary film Meet Your Meat (2002), last sentence of the documentary.
Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Part Four: Lost Letters (p. 106)
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Context: The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of "We are all writers!"
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida" (31 July 1968)
1960s
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: In any case God's act was the union of Mind with Matter by the same act or will which created both. No intermediate cause or condition intervened; no secondary influence had anything whatever to do with the result. Time had nothing to do with it. Every individual that has existed or shall exist was created by the same instantaneous act, for all time. "When the question regards the universal agent who produces beings and time, we cannot consider him as acting now and before, according to the succession of time." God emanated time, force, matter, mind, as he might emanate gravitation, not as a part of his substance but as an energy of his will, and maintains them in their activity by the same act, not by a new one. Every individual is a part of the direct act, not a secondary outcome.
“Over time, every way of thinking generates important problems that it cannot solve.”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Source: 1990s, Re-Creating the Corporation (1999), p. 3. Opening sentence.