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“Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.”

Feels Social Technology Media Social Media Innocence Sappers

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”

Running School Dies Literature Class Century Thread Twentieth Century Snobbery Tweed Sappers

Author:Alan Bennett

“The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.”

Stills Ends Process Position Moon Hundred Blow Revolutionary Crash Echoes Marxism Undermining Dynamite Moralist Sappers

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.”

“I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!”

Perfect Pay Argument Army Engineers Majesty Sappers

Book:The Seven Seas

Source: The Seven Seas

“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.”

States Government United United States Special Constitution Foundation Supreme Subtle Fabric Judicial Judiciary Miners Ordination Judicial Branch Sappers

Book:Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state

Source: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state

“Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."”

People Play Jobs Existence Design Standards Tasks Excellence Rewards Committed Satisfaction Spending Designer Boss Divides Earning Time Spent Seamless Work And Play Earning Money Sappers

Author:Alvin Toffler