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If technology... is to be regarded as a great engine, a mighty accelerator, then knowledge must be regarded as its fuel. And we thus come to the crux of the accelerative process in society, for the engine is being fed a richer and richer fuel every day.
Alvin Toffler
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I think this is why the practice is such a comfort to secular urbanites like me-it's a technique, not a faith. You don't have to believe in anything, even yoga itself, to find joy and solace in the conscious joining of breath and movement, or relief in slowing the whirling of the mind. You just have to do it.
Michelle Goldberg
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But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.
Jon Krakauer
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One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.
Lester Thurow
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In the West Country town of Hereford, the president of a women's club told a year-end meeting that the January bingo game would be canceled to save electricity. Then she proposed a New Year's resolution. 'Let us all work to get England back on her dear old feet,' she said and bumped down pinkly into her chair, overwhelmed by applause.
Richard Eder
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If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.
Robert X. Cringely
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There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
Neal Bascomb
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Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.
David Graham Phillips
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Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.
Rob Sheffield
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Nobody should be authorized to describe the dissolution of a man, still less to do so for money or sensationalism. In the name of human dignity, there should be a prohibition against baring the private lives of others.
Mary Welsh Hemingway
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Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".
Jeannette Walls
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Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
Steven Johnson (author)
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The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Food is fabulous, and having a good relationship with it will make you healthy and happy.
Denise Austin
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The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.
Sylvia Porter
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Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
Sergei Dovlatov
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Democracy, like any noncoercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
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At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.
Brock Yates
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The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.
Joseph Mitchell (writer)
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
Adam Hochschild
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History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.
Jeff Greenfield
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It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.
Steven Kotler
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Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most scientific work never gets noticed. Study after study has shown that most scientific papers are read by almost no one, while a small number of papers are read by many people.
James Surowiecki
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The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.
Robert Sherrill
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Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood... by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.
Karl Fleming
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