Files Quotes

• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  Woody Harrelson

  Excess, Palaces, X Files

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• The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Missing, Seeking

  Song: Something's Burning, Baby, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

  Ralph Ellison

  Action, Forget, Possibility

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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• There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pain, Rooms, Pleasure

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.

  John Darnielle

  Wise, Artist, People

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Accountability, Google

  "Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Age, Heirs

  "Locksley Hall" l. 178 (1842)

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• I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

  Jill Scott

  Character, X Files, Shows

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Progress, Superstitions

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• Even if you were to fall into extreme financial hardship and file for bankruptcy, you need to understand that your student loan debt will not be discharged in bankruptcy. It is the Velcro of all debts.

  Suze Orman

  Fall, Financial Hardship, Velcro

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• All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.

  Gaylord Nelson

  War, Past, Years

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• If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

  Tony Benn

  Years, Library, Paper

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• I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

  James Longstreet

  Blow, Broken, Effort

  James Longstreet, Civil War Classics (2015). “From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America”, p.440, Diversion Books

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• I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Pieces, Computer

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• If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

  Jeb Bush

  Ice, Immigration, Enforcement

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• When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

  J. Cole

  Girl, Jobs, College

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• My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

  Gail Collins

  Dream, Nsa, Rifles

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Troops, World

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• If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.

  Al Franken

  Unique, Faces, Digital

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

  John Irving

  Memories, Thinking, Monsters

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.46, Random House

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• The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  World Government, Historical, Would Be

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• My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Trying, Needs

  "Barbara Kingsolver: How I Write". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. December 5, 2012.

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