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last updated: November 28, 2023

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.
-- Agnes Strickland

Source : Agnes Strickland (1853). “Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII., and His Mother, Elizabeth of York”, p.8

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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
-- Bill Keller

Source : Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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“There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell”
“It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.”
“With God there is no need for long speeches.”
“Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?”
“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”
“You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.”
“If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.”
“Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.”
“There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.”
“When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt”