Cycle Stealing Mode

Famous quotes containing the words cycle, stealing and/or mode:

“The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)