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«I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.»
Author: Alan Bennett
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
blueprint, blueprints, playwright, playwrights, programmed
«Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.»
Author: Germaine Greer
| Keywords:
Amid, a good deal, catastrophe, get away, good deal, natural environment, programmed
«There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
comfortable, costs, inaction, less than, program, programmed, range, ranged, ranging, risks, The Long, The Range
«Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.»
«The whole existence is simple, but man's mind has been cultivated, conditioned, educated, programmed in such a way that the simplest thing becomes crooked. The moment it reaches to your mind it is no longer simple. The mind starts interpreting it, finding things in it which are not there, ignoring things which are there. »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
cultivated, ignoring, interpreting, programmed, simplest
«Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
competently, computer program, inhumanity, programmed, smoothly
«Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
constituencies, constituency, discovered, finally, includes, made-up, percent, population, populations, program, programmed, security, social, Social Security, special, special interest, special interests, vote
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affirm, Affirmed, affirming, Christendom, confused, deluge, deluges, distinction, doctrine, doctrines, entail, entailed, entailing, foreordination, gore, gored, gores, implication, ink, occur, occurrence, occurrences, perdition, predestination, programme, programmed, reverent, spared, The Deluge, with that
«They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
controlling, Federal, federal government, like it, program, programmed, security, social, social control, Social Security, The Federal
«Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
aims, aspirations, collective, electronic, endeavors, handicraft, handicrafts, ideally, programmed
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