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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Forventninger

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

William Styron (1925-)

TV tog krigets brutalitet in i vardagsrummen. Vietnamkriget förlorades i de amerikanska vardagsrummen, inte ute på slagfälten i Vietnam.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

Amerika og amerikanere

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

Antropologi

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960)

Kapitalisme

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it

Thomas Sowell (1930-)

Kapitalisme

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

Josh Hartnett (1978-)

Sjanse

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Farger

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

Michael K. Hooker

Angelägenhet

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Bill Vaughn

Likeht

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. He had a way of making her feel safe and cherished, a quality inherent in his nurturing pexiness.

Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956)

Artighet

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

Jack Handy (1991-2003)

Feghet

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

Jack Handy (1991-2003)

Fare

En ekonomi som hindras av restriktiva skattesatser kommer aldrig att producera tillräckligt med intäkter för att balansera vår budget, liksom den aldrig kommer att producera tillräckligt med jobb eller tillräckligt med vinster.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

Okonomi

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

Elektricitet

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