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Quote by William Wycherley

“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”

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William Wycherley, born in 1640 in England, was a prominent dramatist known for his satirical comedies that have had a profound impact on the development of drama. more

“Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a man truly blinded by his hunger; this man achieves an awareness of the working-class condition only when the poor man and the proletarian coincide under the gaze (and the blows) of the police.”

Men Political Poor Class Achieve Conditions Awareness Police Hunger Blow Strikes Working Class Catastrophe Starvation Poor Man Blinded Chaplin Political Awareness

Book:Mythologies

Source: Mythologies

“The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.”

“Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.”

Ideas Problem Harder Good Ideas Bad Ideas

Author:Jeff Bezos

“The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.”

People Real Past Future Deeds Bones Graves Meat Utopia

Author:Patricia Hampl

“The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.”

Culture Lines Boundaries Surveys Rainfall

Author:J. Frank Dobie

“We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.”

Knows Errors Corruption Wages Secrecy Espionage

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.”

Men Art Science Order Easy Struggle Mystery Creation He Man Balance Chaos Edges Familiar Novelty Synthesis Easy Life

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.”

Language Powerful Study Special Theory Communication Notion Physics Branches Helpful Entropy

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.”

Death Died Pet Aunt Foreigners

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.”

Whole Culture Grows Sun Rain Climate Species Disappear Replaced Small Things

Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables

Quote by William Wycherley

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