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“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”
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“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”
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“But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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“As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.”
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“I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.”
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“All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.”
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“We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.”
Source : Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”
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“The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.”
Source : "Readings in interpersonal & organizational communication" by Richard C. Huseman, (p. 35), 1977.
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“I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.”
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“In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.”
Source : 'The Pendulum Years' (1970) ch. 4
