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• With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

  Clay Shirky

  Data, Digital, Problem

  "Clay Shirky analyzes the newspaper Holocaust" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 14, 2009.

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• Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

  Kevin Brownlow

  Art, Attitude, Silent

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• This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Britain And America, Historical, Degrees

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• Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

  Pim van Lommel

  Forever, Energy

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• After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Atoms, Machines, Patterns

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Fighting, Men

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1921). “The Quimby Manuscripts”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

  Bo Burnham

  Levels, Comedy, Unexpected

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• Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

  Bo Burnham

  Song, Art, Self

  "Bo Burnham, comic 'most likely to earn £1m', goes from YouTube to your town". Interview with James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Self, Hatred, Hated

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.1965, Pan Macmillan

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• An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Military, War, Stress

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• The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Faith, Nature, Majesty

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• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

  Richard Hough

  Night, Naval Warfare, Numbers

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• The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

  Paul Vixie

  Plato, Real, Errors

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• In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Glasses, Play

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• Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Self, Body

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Stupidity, Insanity, World

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.

  John Hamill

  Scotland, Gentleman, Scottish

  John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins

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• This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

  Sarah Manguso

  Suffering, Important, Attention

  Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta

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• Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

  Tito Sotto

  Copying, Flattery, Highest

  "Sotto apologizes to Kennedy but denies plagiarism charge" by Virgil Lopez, www.sunstar.com.ph. November 13, 2012.

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• Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.

  Todd Duncan

  Authenticity, Primitive

  Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

  Peter Drucker

  Spiritual, Men, Order

  "he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

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• The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

  George H. Mead

  Animal, Self, Doe

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• Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.

  Richard Ballantine

  Views, Car, Historical

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• Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable children. Unconfined By shroud or coffin, disembodied souls, Uneasy spirits, steal into the air From festering graveyards when the curfew tolls At the day's death... And wheresoever murders have been done, In stately palaces or lonesome woods, Where'er a soul has sold itself and lost Its high inheritance, there, hovering, broods Some sad, invisible, accurséd Ghost!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Children, Night, Light

  Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.113

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• Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.16, University of Toronto Press

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