Jamais Cascio Quotes
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.
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It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
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Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.
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Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
