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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Data, Language

  "Generation Why?" by Zadie Smith, www.nybooks.com. November 25, 2010.

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• …maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith

  Zadie Smith

  Self, Fake, Friendly

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Night, Week, Five

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy.

  Tom Hardy

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

  Jason Reitman

  Made, Thousand, Feels

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• The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Art, Technology, Hands

  "Harvey Weinstein's favorite mistake", www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.

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• If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.

  Colleen Hoover

  Cracks, Should, Said

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• In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

  Maynard Webb

  Opportunity, Talking, Google

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.

  Erik Qualman

  Wall, Tools, Etc

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• Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them.

  Lucy Hale

  People, Life Is Like, Problem

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