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“One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.”

People World Years Would Be Able Choices Left Behinds Century Hundred Years Ago Command Left Behind Illiterate Laborers Learning To Read

Author:Yishan Wong

“Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" - followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.”

Years Children Left Behinds Wife Years Ago Add Notes Dear Lists Hospitals Embarrassed Daddy Stoves Microwaves Dishwashers Dryers

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Years Humans Important Reason Might Happens Three Human Beings Behinds Worry Alive Week Years Ago Procrastination Staying Alive Savanna

Author:James Surowiecki

“I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.”

Thinking Years Kind Different Behinds Doors Stage Movement Years Ago Climate March Now And Then Urgency Closed Doors Lobbying Behind Closed Doors

Author:Avi Lewis

“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.”

“I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop.”

Years Behinds Five Scene Six Sitting Years Ago Laptops Behind The Scenes Snl

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.”

Years Found Behinds Couple Years Ago Scientist Shy Hiding Genes Shyness

Author:Jonathan Katz

“I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.”

Ifs Want Feels Years Looks Behinds Steps Return Comfortable Years Ago Raised Grandmother Destination My Grandmother

Author:Maya Angelou

“My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.”

People Years Littles Black President Differences White Behinds Boys Wife Dog Years Ago Folks Scared Smell My Wife Ran Jail No Fear Little Boys Trifling

Author:Dick Gregory

“I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.”

World Feels Years I Can Reality Age Today Romance Behinds Gone Saws Involved Years Ago Golden Fortunate Kitchen Hotel Fades Chef Get Involved Accountants Golden Age Old World Stoves

Author:Marco Pierre White

“I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.”

People Ifs Years Wells Said Government Might Remember Lying Behinds Talking Arms Industry Involved Succeed Weapons Jokes Research Years Ago Profit Productions Related Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.”

“Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.”

Years Behinds Lord Years Ago Clever Genuine Ministers Crowns Thrones Estates Dimwits

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.”

Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

“And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.”

Years Body Behinds Cases Mouths Years Ago Closest Fourteen Eclairs Joe Morelli

Book:Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.”

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Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“The question is, do we have a shadow government? And, if we do, who are those intelligent minority that is -- that is guiding us through? And where are they guiding us to? If you skip past all of the puppets and the strings, if you stop looking at the puppets themselves, you have to see who's behind the puppets. Who is choosing the puppets and the players? Who's the puppet master? George Soros.”