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• The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Empowering, Democracy, Facts

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• There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Thinking, Germany

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• Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

  Geoff Mulgan

  War, World, Republic

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Civilization, Age, Common

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• President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Taken, Thinking, Blue

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• Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Medicine, Speech

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• Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

  John Ralston Saul

  Ideas, Government, People

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Forever, Agitation, Way

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• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Two

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press

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• Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Eye, Leader, Insanity

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.57, Macmillan

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• There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

  Matt Taibbi

  Two, Fever, Littles

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.46, Black Cat

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• What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

  Douglas Adams

  Strong, Needs, Peers

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Feelings, Nastiness

  "A Few Words About Robert Hughes (1938-2012)" by John Seed, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Community

  "Heretics". Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Institution of the Family", 1905.

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• People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

  Miranda July

  Sexy, Distance, Mean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

  Nick Hornby

  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Teenager, Men, African American

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Hate, People

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.138, Penguin

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• What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at least—is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.

  Tim Wise

  Struggle, Thinking, Justice

  Tim Wise (2011). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.269, Soft Skull Press

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• Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

  Ted Dekker

  Reality, People, Drug

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• Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Art, Philosophy

  "East of Eden". Book by John Steinbeck, 1952.

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• If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Boys, Trying

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

  John Bytheway

  Nice, People, Doe

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• All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Soldier, Ordinary

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Empire”, p.93, Macmillan

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