A Quotes
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“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.”
“Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.”
“Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.”
“autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.”
Source: Life and letters
“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.”
“Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.”
“Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.”
“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”
“Autobiography is mostly alibiography.”
“Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.”
Source: Weight
“Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.”
“Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.”
“Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.”
Source: Friday
“Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.”
Source: 50 Spiritual Classics: Timeless Wisdom From 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery, Enlightenment and Purpose
“Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.”
“Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.”
“Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.”
“Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.”
“Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.”
“Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.”
Source: Putin's Russia
“Autodenominarse transfeminista no puede servir de excusa para borrar todas las maravillosas genealogías de feminismos radicales que nos nutren, porque entonces el transfeminismo, queridas, será neomachista. Y le estaremos haciendo el trabajo al patriarcado, desarrollando propaganda antifeminista y dividiéndonos entre nosotras.”
Source: Transfeminismos: Epistemes, fricciones y flujos
“Autogenocide: Genocide instigated remotely, usually through media incited sectarianism or trade of drugs or weapons to the targeted population, but performed by the population on itself.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“Autogenocide in the name of the old god Economy is a sign of endosocial extremism and cruelty”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“Autograph your life with a signature of excellence.”
“Autograph your work with pride.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.”
“Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.”
“Autogynephilia has long been conceptualized as a sexual orientation...but its advocates, myself among them, have not
sufficiently emphasized this point. We should arguably use every opportunity to do
so. Autogynephilia, we should explain, is another variety of sexual orientation: It is
an unusual variant form of heterosexuality. Like other sexual orientations, it is
something we autogynephilic transsexuals did not choose and something we cannot
change. It certainly determines what we lust after, but it also determines what we
love and want to unite with. And we autogynephilic transsexuals understandably
feel strong pressure to express and act on our autogynephilic sexual orientations.”
Source: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies
“Autogynophilia reduces women's sexed humanity to parts available for purchase, as all aspects of the sex industries do. Support is flourishing for this development under a human rights framework, while woman are being erased in language and law, and the men with this paraphilia are given more prominence.”
Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour
“Autoimmunity is internalized by patients as an opportunity for the ultimate self-management project. But in fact it is a manifestation of a flawed collective project. If it is an indictment of anything, it is an indictment not of our personhood but of our impulse to see social problems as being about our personhood, instead of a consequence of our collective shortcomings as co-citizens of this place and time.”
Source: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
“Automaatio huolehtii siitä, ettei tulevaisuudessa töitä tarvitse tehdäkään. Ja lämpimänsä siitäkin saa, kun pujottelee ja syöksyy Lapissa, ajaa moottoripyörällä ja autolla, hiihtää vesisuksella ja heiluu diskoteekissa.”
Source: Rasvamaksa
“Automate the headlights so drivers can't forget to turn them on in low visibility.”
“Automated chick with a rubber band.”
“Automated testing helps developers discover their mistakes quickly (usually within minutes), which enables faster fixes as well as genuine learning-learning that is impossible when mistakes are discovered six months later during integration testing, when memories and the link between cause and effect have long faded. Instead of accruing technical debt, problems are fixed as they are found, mobilizing the entire organization if needed, because global goals outweigh local goals.”
Source: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
“Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.”
“Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.”
“Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.”
“Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.”
“Automating a mess yields an automated mess.”
“Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.”
“Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.”
“Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!”
“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
Source: The road ahead
“Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.”
“Automation gives you time. A virtual assistant gives you focus. Together, they help your business grow.”
“Automation, globalization, and increased education requirements - compounded by failures in government and institutions - have given rise to a generation of disconnected and fearful people. The number of men who have dropped out of the labour force and stopped looking for work has quintupled since the 1950s. The result is a form of community trauma deeply felt in many rural areas: intergenerational poverty, long-term unemployment, degraded environments, disconnected social relationships, and destructive social norms.”
Source: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods