…people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
– Neil Postman
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- It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions – Neil Postman
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- Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities. – Idries Shah
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- I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through. – Sharon Salzberg
- Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing. – David L Conroy
- The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential – Sunday Adelaja
- Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. – Doris Lessing
- Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. – Ron Suskind
- Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. – Auliq Ice
- We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people. – Kilroy J Oldster
- That’s something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. – William Gibson
- Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. – Criss Jami
- Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the -˜manly’ technologies. – Morinosuke Kawaguchi
- Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices. – Henry Jenkins
- There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. – John Michael Greer
- The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you’re looking for a one-night stand. – Stephen Few
- We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing. – Evgeny Morozov
- New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information. – Sara Sheridan
- The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. – Bilal Hussain
- When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice. – Michael Joseph Brown
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- Regard those who respect you.Esteem those who honor you.Cherish those who love you.Reward those who adore you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I don’t hate you. I love you and adore you because you are so innocent you don’t know what you are doing. – Debasish Mridha
- Your silence holds the mysterious and beautiful secrets of your life. Feel it, love it, adore it, live it, and enjoy it. – Debasish Mridha
- I’d love to try to tame you… And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable -“ – Simona Panova
- I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? – Onyi Anyado
- To find true love simply one must just adore. – Will Advise