#tension

I see technology as being an extension of the human body. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#body #extension #human #human body #i

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#coexist #deep #deep desire #desire #economics

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#aspirations #between #hallmark #institutions #our

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#achieve #children #having #having children #her

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. ↗

— Richard Neal

#cords #dangers #deaths #electrical #extension

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#enthusiasm #extension #natural #natural extension #our

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language