#course

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better? ↗

— E. Lockhart

#golf-course-party #in-control #food

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#any #awkward #course #effect #local

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#army #chicago #course #electromagnetic #few

I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well. ↗

— Chris Squire

#balance #best #came #course #four

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. ↗

— Louise Brown

#because #birmingham #courses #dozens #every

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#courses #economics #i #irresistible #loved

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#media #postmodern #power #science-fiction #motivational

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#cross #intercourse #orgasm #religion #salvation

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#mankind #most #most powerful #powerful #used