Advent Quotes - Page 8

• The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Mean, Destiny, Mass Destruction

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• With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

  Erik Qualman

  Hero, Technology, Creating

  Erik Qualman (2012). “Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.

  Harold Speed

  Perfection, Rubbish, Desperation

  Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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