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“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”

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Laurie Anderson, born on June 5, 1947, is an American artist known for her multimedia performances, visual art, and music. Her works blend sound, visual, and performance art, exploring themes of personal identity, technology, and culture. more

“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”

Thinking Mean Said Happens Goal Findings Strive Seeking Worthy Noses Obsessed Openness Seekers Receptive Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.”

Mind Born Challenges Habit Difficulty Vigorous Contending

Author:Abigail Adams

“Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.”

Children Hands Fire Our Children Warm Witness Burning Testimony Redeemer

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.”

Opinion Progress Development Quiet Deep Within

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”

Knows Men Writing Kind Important Faces Dies Men And Women What's Important

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”

Conspiracy

Book:The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”

Ifs Want Faults

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!”

Knows Littles Doe Speak Boys Beats Annoying Little Boys Tease Alice Adventures In Wonderland Sneezing

Author:Lewis Carroll

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