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“Una delle ragioni per cui il mondo non è ancora scomparso è forse che, anche nei momenti più drammatici, c'è sempre qualcuno che impassibile guarda da un'altra parte. Dei cerchi nella sabbia... Il frontone di una casa a Delft... A bordo di una nave i cui cannoni si stanno preparando a sostenere i loro argomenti di vita e di morte, c'è un uomo completamente assorto nell'osservazione del passaggio di Venere. Per noi che cerchiamo di seguire la storia di Niebuhr e dei suoi compagni duecento anni dopo, quando altre rampe di lancio vengono preparate per ben altre detonazioni, vi è quasi un che di consolatorio in questa immagine. Anche noi vorremmo osservare questi lontani avvenimenti con tutta la precisione possibile, ma anche il nostro astrolabio a volte trema un po’...”

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Book:Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
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“I would be utterly emabarrassed to have others around me hear my half of what can only be described as pedestrian. "Yes, the elevator has just pulled up to the 16th floor." Do these people have the ability to go, for say, an eight- or ten-minute stretch without being in contact with someone else? What are they afraid of? Confronting their own thoughts?”

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Book:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
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“It's not that you can't get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can get a lot of things done. However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the incessant cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks, understandably enough, that accrue directly to having a cell phone.”

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Book:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
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“We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.”

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Book:Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
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