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There is this sense that if we just interact more -- make one more phone call or send one extra email -- we will get more done. We will get ahead or, at least, catch up. The truth is that the more we communicate, the more we MUST communicate.
-- Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

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When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.
-- Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll)

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
-- Barbara Tuchman

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We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos.
-- Katie Mack (The End of Everything)

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It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
-- Carveth Read

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I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
-- Peter Cooper

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Have you considered that if you take the list of things you assume and invert it you would get a far more useful set of assumptions?
-- Richard Caley

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Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease.
-- William Osler

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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
-- William Strunk Jr.

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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin

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Learning primary care in a hospital is equivalent to learning forestry in a lumber yard.
-- Hilliard Jason

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By nature's kindly disposition, most questions which are beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
-- George Santayana

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- G. K. Chesterton

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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
-- Boris Pasternak

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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley

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The Internet is restructuring society, shifting our educational market away from one in which producers define the nature of the educational product and the nature of its delivery, toward one in which the consumer is in charge and is no longer simply being fed information but is instead responding to and interacting with that information.
-- Educause Review (Feb 2000)

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Good judgement requires good information. Every imagined danger or adverse social trend is not as ghastly as it seems. Consciousness-raising can be truth-lowering. We fall prey to our fears and fantasies. We create synthetic truths from a blend of genuine evidence, popular prejudice and mass anxiety.
-- Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek)

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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -- not an invitation for hypnosis.
-- Umberto Eco

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