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#1

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

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#2

“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

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#3

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

tags: attitude, attributed-no-source, determination, persistence

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#4

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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#5

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory

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#6

“There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.”
― Karl Popper

tags: deduction, science, scientific-method

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#7

“Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually they obscure that which one hopes will come into bud.”
― Lord Patterson Coats

tags: crime, deduction, murder, mystery

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#8

“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

tags: chaos, chaos-theory, life, mathematics, paradigm, paradigm-shift, philosophy, physics, science, thomas-kuhn

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#9

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: concept, institution, institutions, philosopher

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#10

“If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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#11

“Help yourself, then everyone will help you. Principle of brotherly love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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#12

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
― Jane Addams

tags: immigration, political-philosophy, social-justice

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#13

“Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!”
― Oliver Gaspirtz

tags: bad-choices, dark-ages, democracy, democrats, election, election-2016, elections, hillary, hillary-clinton, homophobia, immigration, misogyny, nativism, politics, populism, racism, republicans, trump, trump-popularity-explained, voting

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#14

“I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.”
― James Joyce

tags: america, immigration, joyce, ulysses

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#15

“To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

tags: american, american-culture, american-values, americans, ancestry, ancestry-and-attitude, being-american, ethnicity, genealogy, immigrant-families, immigration, melting-pot, u-s-culture

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#16

“Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.”
― Jerry Agar

tags: immigration

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#17

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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#18

“We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

tags: information

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#19

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights

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#20

“There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”
― Richard Feynman

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#21

“America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.”
― Jean Baudrillard, América

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#22

“History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power

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#23

“Human rights, dissidence, antiracism, SOS-this, SOS-that: these are soft, easy, post coitum historicum ideologies, 'after-the-orgy' ideologies for an easy-going generation which has known neither hard ideologies nor radical philosophies. The ideology of a generation which is neo-sentimental in its politics too, which has rediscovered altruism, conviviality, international charity and the individual bleeding heart. Emotional outpourings, solidarity, cosmopolitan emotiveness, multi-media pathos: all soft values harshly condemned by the Nietzschean, Marxo-Freudian age... A new generation, that of the spoilt children of the crisis, whereas the preceding one was that of the accursed children of history.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

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#24

“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

tags: loss, new-york, postmodern, power

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#25

“Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment .... The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a replicator and propagator — an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

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#26

“Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

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#27

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational

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#28

“Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.”
― Jacques Derrida

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#29

“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: information, journalism, mainstream-media, newspapers

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#30

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
― T.S. Eliot, The Rock

tags: information, knowledge, wisdom

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