“The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.”
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Darwin Among the Machines
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part III - The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit
Context: Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.
“There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why.”
The day I stood up alone
Context: There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why. That day standing up in that stadium shouting at the President, I discovered why I was truly born, that I would no longer be silent in the face of injustice.
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses p. 168
1840s, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Source: Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
