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When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.


John Mica


#become #believe #bureaucracy #consider #country

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#behind #contempt #impersonal #personal #their

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.


Georg Simmel


#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.


Georg Simmel


#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.


Herbert Simon


#awe-inspiring #beautiful #demand #demands #even

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.


Alfred Jarry


#bringing #character #complete #conflict #create

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.


Dennis Kucinich


#families #impersonal #match #name #place

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.


Emile M. Cioran


#anxiety #ideas #impersonal #philosophy #refuge

There are readings—of the same text—that are dutiful, readings that map and dissect, readings that hear a rustling of unheard sounds, that count grey little pronouns for pleasure or instruction and for a time do not hear golden or apples. There are personal readings, which snatch for personal meanings, I am full of love, or disgust, or fear, I scan for love, or disgust, or fear. There are—believe it—impersonal readings—where the mind's eye sees the lines move onwards and the mind's ear hears them sing and sing. Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark—readings when the knowledge that we shall know the writing differently or better or satisfactorily, runs ahead of any capacity to say what we know, or how. In these readings, a sense that the text has appeared to be wholly new, never before seen, is followed, almost immediately, by the sense that it was always there, that we the readers knew it was always there, and have always known it was as it was, though we have now for the first time recognised, become fully cognisant of, our knowledge.


A.S. Byatt


#reading #readings #subjective-readings #love

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little






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