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“Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.”

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

Thinking Ends Generations Special All Things Apocalypse Hubris

Author:Hugh Howey

“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”

Thinking World Kind Doe Book Ends Reason Stories Bigs Care Guy Turns Girl Reading Given Novel Data Winner Plot Adultery

Author:Elif Batuman

“I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.”

Thinking Writing Doe Ends Optimistic Spectrum

Author:Tim Lebbon

“Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.”

People Thinking Way Humans Mean Different Ends Might Speak Human Beings Ability Doubt Dog Standing Communicate Visuals No Doubt Fur Unfriendly Ability To Speak Communicating With Others

Book:Micromessaging

Source: Micromessaging

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.”

“The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.”

“When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.”

People Thinking Ends Loses Destiny Share End Of Life

Author:John C. Danforth

“There's been nothing proven that violence in video games has an impact. As a parent though, and I'm a parent for a 20-year-old, for a 16-year-old and for a 10-year-old, and so, you know, I make choices everyday for my kids as to what games I think is appropriate for them to play. And, you know, in the end it's up to the parents, it's up to the gamers themselves working with their parents, if they're under 21, to make the smartest choice for the games they play.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Ends Play Kids Choices Games Parent Violence Impact Everyday Video Appropriate Proven Gamer

Author:Reggie Fils-Aime

“You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.”

Ifs Thinking Children Ends Might Figures

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.”

Thinking Knows Littles Ends Moments Care Pain Passion Courses Next Opportunity Waiting Hurt Forget Dangerous Forgiving Cracks Our Relationship Weakening Forgive And Forget

Author:Edith Hahn Beer

“Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.”

Thinking Writing Looks Ends Novel Middle Driving Texas Scenery

Book:How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

Source: How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense

“Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Ends Matter Speak Love Is Childhood Special Dog Ears No Matter What Significant Clarity Human Life Realms Boyhood Dog Love Life Span Humans And Dogs

Book:DOG LOVE

Source: DOG LOVE

“If you feel someone suspicious is following you, the best thing to do is to talk on your cell phone, Even if you just act as if someone is on the other end, it will make them think twice.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Phones Following Cells Best Things Things To Do Suspicious Cell Phone Think Twice

Author:Arthur Mitchell