Evgeny Morozov Quotes

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

Evgeny Morozov

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• Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.

  

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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
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• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

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• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

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• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
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• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kid
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• Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Light
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• I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
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• I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.

  

  Jack Benny
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• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
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• To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

  

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  • Nature

• Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Experience
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• I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.

  

  Bill Pullman

• I give no quarter, and I ask for none. Out there, I'm going to fight for my team and do the best I can.

  

  Diego Costa
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• Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

  

  Jeremy Irons
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  • Children
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• 'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.

  

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• A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

  

  David Augsburger
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  • Trust
  • Commitment

• I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Atheism

• The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Why
  • Know
  • Problem

• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women

• In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Energy
  • Alternatives
  • Dedicated