Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Implosion Magazine, No. 83, p. 16 (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
Implosion Magazine
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 4 “The Emperor; in part I, “The General” originally published as “Dead Hand” in Astounding (April 1945)
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 146
Charvaka An unorthodox school of Hindu philosophy
Swami Vivekananda as recorded in the complete works of Swami Vivekananda https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_7/Inspired_Talks/Friday,_July_5.
Robertson Davies book World of Wonders
"World of Wonders".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
Context: A sense of wonder is in itself a religious feeling. But in so many people the sense of wonder gets lost. It gets scarred over. It's as though a tortoise shell has grown over it. People reach a stage where they're never surprised, never delighted. They're never suddenly aware of glorious freedom or splendour in their lives. This is very unhappy, very unfortunate. The attitude is often self-induced. It is fear. People are afraid to be happy.
“The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Before the Sabbath (1979)
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 180
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
“Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months.”
Thomas Friedman (1953) American journalist and author
But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.
New York Times (28 November 2004) "The Last Mile".
"The next … months" in Iraq
“Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)