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- Nov 07, 2020
Will Quotes
Quotes on what the future will bring.
These quotes look ahead to what will happen - warnings about being watched without strong encryption, and a fatalist view that a film's success will follow its own destiny regardless of effort. Related reading includes Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always just operated with the attitude that if I work just as hard as I can, everything will be fine.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's the ingredients you choose (Chorizo? Sure! Rye bread? Why not?) that will make your stuffing stand out.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need a specialty lame (French for 'blade') to make professional-level bread at home, but it certainly helps in creating those telltale slash marks. You need a truly razor-sharp edge to make a clean cut; even a sharp paring knife will drag as it moves through the wet dough.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
- Converge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to replacing many jobs, automation will also transform other jobs. Professions involving high touch, personal relationships - such as clergy, dentists, and financial advisors, for instance - face the least risk of automation but will nevertheless be profoundly transformed.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020