Postindustrial Quotes

#1. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.

Seth Godin

#2. Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Horace

#3. I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn something. I like games that you can just pick up, sit down in front of, and get going.

Sid Meier

#4. In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

Herbert Schiller

#5. She needed to scream two little words. But Jo didn't surrender; she Hulk-smashed. She squeezed until things broke.

Kresley Cole

#6. She jerked hastily back to avoid stepping on it, and her shoulder bumped his
he put a hand out to steady her, just as she turned to apologize and then she was somehow in the circle of his arm and he was kissing her.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

Sol LeWitt

#8. The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Rumi

#9. The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

Mary Shelley

#10. A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

Paul Laxalt

#11. To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

Ben Bernanke

#12. Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#13. There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.

Heber J. Grant

#14. She wanted to wake up like Dorothy and see Michael's face peering over the side of the bed, laughing. WHY, YOU JUST HIT YOUR HEAD. But it was not a dream and there was no Kansas and he was never coming back.

Janet Fitch

#15. He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth ...

Charlaine Harris

#16. An enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

Margaret E. Knight

#18. You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

Klaus Kinski