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Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...


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It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.



Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'



There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.



The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.



Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.



We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.



Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.



A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors



Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.



The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.





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Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.

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We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.



Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.



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It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority



To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.



To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.



The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.



I love thrillers. I've never made them, but I would say a really good thriller is my favorite kind of a movie. If I can get a really great thriller, you know.

I love thrillers. I've never made them, but I would say a really good thriller is my favorite kind of a movie. If I can get a really great thriller, you know.




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