Quote by Susan Orlean
I dont turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are

I dont turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. – Susan Orlean

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Sometimes Im dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us thats the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time. – Susan Orlean

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Technology
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There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. – Susan Orlean

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power
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I wish I had coined the phrase tyranny of choice, but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. – Susan Orlean

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. – George Byron

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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. – George William Curtis

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mixing ones wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. – Bertolt Brecht

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Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles. – David O. McKay

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. – James Madison

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I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. – Ridley Scott

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If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and its clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again. – Bill OReilly

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