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• There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Beer, Wind

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• All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Past, Technology

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• [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

  Clay Shirky

  Self, Giving, Pages

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• But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.

  Robert Fulghum

  Distance, Believe, Mean

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.173, Ivy Books

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• He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

  Jack London

  Dog, Fighting, Law

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick) (Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.) Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Couple, Thinking, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

  Alfie Allen

  Mean, Looks, Laptops

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

  Alan Lightman

  Communication, Philosophical, Taken

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• My fan mail is what keeps me going.

  Lil' Kim

  Fans, Fan Mail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Hero, Adversity

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• I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

  Rachel Maddow

  Phones, Hopeless

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• I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.

  Oscar Nunez

  Writing, Surfing, Use

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2008.

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• People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

  Nikki Reed

  Hate, People, Special

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• At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

  Bernie Sanders

  Office, Information, Flow

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Phones, Community, Towns

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• My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

  Joe Sakic

  Hate, Wife, Addresses

  "Avs’ Sakic just like your average Joe". Interview with Adrian Dater, www.denverpost.com. October 10, 2007.

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• I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!

  Lev Yilmaz

  Sleep, Home, Cutting

  "Life is funny. And mundane. Just like in a cartoon by Lev." by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. November 16, 2004.

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• It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to
  Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home
  with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know
  for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out
  you know, out thousands of e-mails.

  Jedediah Bila

  Lying, Mean, Home

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  Wendy Liebman

  Comedian, Festivals, Female

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• I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

  Bernard Marcus

  Use, Dinosaurs, Possibility

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• People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

  Gayle King

  People, Faster, Get Back

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• A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

  Peter James

  Sunday, Thinking, Unique

  "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

  Jason Bateman

  Mother, Fans, Reason

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