The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
-- Frank Zappa

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Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.
-- Shoshana Zuboff

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The most certain way to succeed is to always try one more time.
-- Thomas A. Edison

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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-face and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
-- C. S. Lewis

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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
-- Roald Dahl

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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
-- David Brinkley

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle

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As regards the celebrated "struggle for life," it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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I learned one really sad fact from my career as a columnist: nobody changes their mind about anything. Ever. Once we form the opinion, we become evidence processors and we just collect all the evidence that supports our opinion and reject all the evidence that disputes it.
-- Bob Metcalfe

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We all have to believe in something. I believe I'll go paddle.
-- Anonymous Canoeist

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