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«Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
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achieved, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, institutions, layout, layouts, perfection, planned, point, Point of, such institutions, the point
«The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality»
Author: Irving Babbit
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Reading
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collapse, forests, minister, pulp, quantity, triviality
«So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.»
«Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.»
«The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
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collapse, contributing, crash, crisis, deciding, dollars, greed, healing, larger, our planet, selfishness, structure, The crash, The Crisis, the system, Western, westerns
«When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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Travel
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as far as possible, collapse, collapses, collapsing, crowded, elsewhere, I.D., Id, IDs, not far, space travel
«The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Software
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anarchy, collapse, developing countries, hardware, leap, software, suddenness
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