Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
-- Bertrand Russell
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The ideas that liberate one generation become the shackles of the next.
-- Isaiah Berlin
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If you can listen to everything, you may end up hearing nothing.
-- Bernard Holland
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
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The inexhaustible pages of nature... written over and over uncountable times, written in characters of every size and color, sentences composed of sentences, every part of a character a sentence.
-- John Muir
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Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens
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Metadata is surveillance.
-- Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath)
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Human attention certainly behaves like an economic good in the sense that we buy it and measure it. On an individual level, we're deeply aware when we don't have enough of it.
-- Thomas H. Davenport ((Harvard Business Review Sep/Oct 2000))
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein
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Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.
-- Egon Schiele
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