Joyce Appleby Quotes

#1. There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.

Miguel Nicolelis

#2. The mountains were gone, replaced by a lush green vale. A river flowed out of the mountains, twisting in great curves through the vale until it

John Gwynne

#3. An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year ... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Charles De Lint

#4. The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Joyce Appleby

#6. A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs ... because they have the most to hide. The guys that are in the most pain are usually the ones with the biggest hearts.

Tori Amos

#8. We each have a little imagination in all of us, and a book is the best absorbent there is.

S.A. Tawks

#9. Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Joyce Appleby

#10. Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Joyce Appleby

#11. Only those parts of the collective consciousness with strong, non-conflicting inner visions change the physical world. They simply will things into existence.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#12. Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.

Mike Ditka

#13. Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.

Laura Ruby

#14. The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do; and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives.

Jacob Bronowski

#15. Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

Joyce Appleby

#16. [The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place.

Hannah Arendt