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“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about 1812. If you write about 1812 in 1860, a horse is still a horse. A carriage is still a carriage. Obviously, there are been some technological advancements, et cetera, but you don't have to worry about explaining the next killer [iPhone] app or the next Facebook because right now things are happening so quickly. ("Gary Shteyngart: Finding 'Love' In A Dismal Future", NPR interview, August 2, 2010)”
Gary Shteyngart
“I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'”
Gary Oldman“The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860”
Mark A. Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis“Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.”
Glenn Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920“As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past.”
Glenn Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920“All decisions are taken two levels above the highest level of understanding”
David K. Brown, Before the Ironclad: Warship Design and Development, 1815-1860“Conjugation of the irregular verb “to design”:I create, You interfere, He gets in the way.We cooperate, You obstruct, They conspire.”
David K. Brown, Before the Ironclad: Warship Design and Development, 1815-1860“Writing is the great invention of the world.”
Abraham Lincoln, Discoveries and Inventions: A Lecture by Abraham Lincoln Delivered in 1860“It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.”
W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880“Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage.”
Patrul Rinpoche, Deity Mantra and Wisdom: Development Stage Meditation in Tibetan Buddhist TantraAll in One Creative & Marketing Platform to tell stories at scale
