“Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.” WorldYearsHas BeensStillsEnoughLawLandSpeechInnovationSlogansFree SocietyMalls Author:Thomas Frank
“Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.” MenWayYearsWellsSeemsRememberFormWinningLandStrangeThousandSpeechFoolishThousand Years Book:Troilus and Cressida Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.” WellsLife IsLordLandSpeechSkinsTongueRisingMajestyThyselfDistinguishedUnderworldNileMakest Author:Akhenaton
“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.” ImportantDifferentFeelingsSpaceBreakPlansSocietyLandHabitTravelSpeechImportant ThingsReactionsLandscapeVillageFormationTourismHabitualTravel And TourismForeign Lands Book:Five years Source: Five years
“Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.” YearsPlaySongSimpleSeaLandSpeechNewsInstrumentsMusicalRegionsDevicesPrincipalGlobesLecturesMusical InstrumentsInexpensive Book:The Wireless Tesla Source: The Wireless Tesla