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«The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order»
Author: Alvin Toffler (Author) | About: Future | Keywords: arrives, too soon
«The best moment for work or study never arrives; one should therefore work whenever one can.»
Author: David Lindsay (Novelist) | Keywords: arrives
«Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.»
Author: John Wayne (Actor) | About: Life | Keywords: arrives, clean, midnight, puts
«This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I mean, way back. I mean sure, they want to go back before the 70?s and the 60?s to the 50?s, no doubt about that. They also want to go back before the New Deal to the 20?s, well they also want to go back before the Progressive Era to the Gilded Age. Well, not quite, they also want to go back before the Emancipation Proclamation to the days of slavery, not even, what they want to do is take us back to a moment prior to the Enlightenment; they want to take us back to a moment when faith registered more than reason. They want to take us back to an imaginary age of absolute moral clarity, when good was good and evil was evil and everyone could see the difference. They want to take us back to an imaginary Manichean age when you?re either with us or against us, which means you either are us or we?ll exterminate you because we can only tolerate ourselves, we can only tolerate those who share our values. If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because that?s Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, it?s when 150% America puts a flag on it?s lapel and a cross around it?s neck and a real folksy way a talkin?, but just because it?s red, white and blue, doesn?t mean it?s American.»
«The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.»
«There are two types of minds - the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the dive»
«There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.»
«There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of»
«Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow»
«There's plenty of time to bemoan bad fortune once it arrives»

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