Sensation

Hope, like the delusion of religion, is a wonderful sensation.
--J. A. Barry

Hope

Hope for hope's sake, hope as tautology, hope because hope, hope because "I said so," is the enemy of intelligence.
--Ta-Nehisi Coates

Technology

Technology can define a culture, and sometimes you forget the thing you're using is technology at all. Until, eventually, inevitably, the technology is all but forgotten.
--Adrienne LaFrance

Money

Since when did money become life?
--Lorraine Hansberry

Gift

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
--Thich Nhat Hanh

Prosperity

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.
--William Jennings Bryan ("Cross of Gold" speech)

The Whole Point

We're supposed to be better than this. That's the whole point of this country.
--Larry Wilmore

Deference

If you wrap what you say in religion, our media will give you nothing but deference.
--Duncan Black

Ultimate Logic

Racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gifts

What punishments of God are not gifts?
--J. R. R. Tolkein

Cosmos

We are a way of the cosmos to know itself.
--Carl Sagan

Stories

We tell stories to continue ourselves.
--Ken Burns

Trying

Life is trying things to see if they work.
--Ray Bradbury

Interruption

The internet is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention.
--Nicholas Carr

Art

We have art so as not to die of the truth.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Something We Can Do

When our fellow citizens are dying and there's something we can do about it, it's morally vacant to say it's their problem.
--Gary Gutting

Funny

Being funny is being awake.
--Robert "Bob" Mankoff

Transition

We are all beginners in times of profound human transition, no matter how much we have seen it before.
--Jennifer L. Hollis