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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in no... CHARLES C. MANN A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the st... CHARLES C. MANN Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastic... CHARLES C. MANN The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of mali... CHARLES C. MANN The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those r... CHARLES C. MANN Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, b... CHARLES C. MANN A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to t... CHARLES C. MANN Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can a... CHARLES C. MANN Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Par... CHARLES C. MANN Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is... CHARLES C. MANN Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between wi... CHARLES C. MANN CHARLES MANN CHARLES MANN CHARLES MANN The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world, membership in whi... CHARLES C. MORRISON If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. CHARLES C. ABBOTT You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. CHARLES C. NOBLE CHARLES C. WEST You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. CHARLES C. NOBLE First we make our habits, then our habits make us. CHARLES C. NOBLE Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 What is said in the pas... CHARLES C. RYRIE We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should al... CHARLES C. COLSON You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. CHARLES C. NOBLE It is more important to be than to do, for if I am what God wants me to be, then I will do what He w... CHARLES C. RYRIE I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by... CHARLES C. FINN Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ... SALLY MANN The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re... SALLY MANN I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi... SALLY MANN Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo... SALLY MANN I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead. SALLY MANN I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t... SALLY MANN I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. SALLY MANN I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity. SALLY MANN At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ... SALLY MANN It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and... SALLY MANN If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one. SALLY MANN I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an... SALLY MANN Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. SALLY MANN I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe... SALLY MANN To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. SALLY MANN Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable. SALLY MANN Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ... SALLY MANN I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f... SALLY MANN I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about... SALLY MANN You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi... SALLY MANN When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit... SALLY MANN I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity... SALLY MANN When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a... SALLY MANN Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst... SALLY MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o... MANFRED MANN The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ... MANFRED MANN I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun... MANFRED MANN THOMAS MANN The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. HEINRICH MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN AIMEE MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. BARRY MANN You have to be very brave in that first writing session. BARRY MANN I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s... BARRY MANN We've written something like 900 songs in all. BARRY MANN I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows. BARRY MANN I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. BARRY MANN The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki... BARRY MANN I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. BARRY MANN Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themsel... BARRY MANN I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direc... BARRY MANN A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ... BARRY MANN You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and... BARRY MANN I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear... BARRY MANN If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist. BARRY MANN If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something. BARRY MANN We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs. BARRY MANN I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. BARRY MANN One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record pr... BARRY MANN I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing ... BARRY MANN It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative cro... BARRY MANN Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability. BARRY MANN If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber toda... BARRY MANN We became the songs we wrote. BARRY MANN There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs ... BARRY MANN It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive. BARRY MANN You're going to have more rejection than acceptance. BARRY MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen... LESLIE MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN GABRIEL MANN THOMAS MANN I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue s... SALLY MANN THOMAS MANN GABRIEL MANN AIMEE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN THOMAS MANN I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's re... HERBIE MANN For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I h... HERBIE MANN Demi... 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LESLIE MANN HORACE MANN HORACE MANN GABRIEL MANN HORACE MANN THOMAS MANN Child actors don't have great track records. LESLIE MANN The biggest problem is getting to work. BARRY MANN Once I get into it, then I'm into it. BARRY MANN You can get stale writing with each other for a while. BARRY MANN I was very fortunate, though, to have a writing partner that truly is brilliant with words and at th... BARRY MANN I had already about five or six songs written just for myself, but I never thought I'd end up being ... BARRY MANN We happened to start writing pop songs in a time when the old music business was beginning to fade a... BARRY MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input. BARRY MANN And even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same ... BARRY MANN
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Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and sate... 
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The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ... 
To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present ... 
Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had ... 
And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objec... 
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore in... 
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—ma... 
If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible t... 
I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli... 
There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they rec... 
Today the most serious computer predators are funded by rich criminal syndicates and even nation-sta... 
... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv... 
Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars--namely, the opening of t... 
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt... 
Accelerating technology innovations such as ubiquitous sensors, cheap computing power, and 5G networ... 
If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find you... 
I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty Ger... 
Wherever you are, be all there. 
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it
is only to be met with in minds wh... 
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-contr... 
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors... 
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv... 
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv... 
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, adv... 
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as d... 
U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international cr... 
I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this ... 
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the u... 
Sports should always be fun. 
They wanted someplace the family could go to. And they wanted the world to know that Julius existed. 
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shakin... 
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. 
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. 
More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and... 
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I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo... 
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much ca... 
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. 
I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it. 
I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morr... 
The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red wi... 
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. 