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Sonntag, April 24, 2011
Donnerstag, April 07, 2011
Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. ... As if the main object were to talk fast and not to talk sensibly.
Improved means to an unimproved end
... [W]ith a hundred "modern improvements" there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. ... Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are improved means to an unimproved end.
Thoreau: Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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