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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at…
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.…
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
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Anything that's worth anything is complicated.
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you…
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of…
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When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of…
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My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream…
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The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.
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Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and…
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life.…
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to…
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue…
— Edward de Bono
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People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of…
— Corey Taylor
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped…
— Vannevar Bush
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains.…
— Umberto Eco
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.…
— Tom Rachman
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There…
— Charlize Theron
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A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back,…
— Willie Nelson
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I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob…
— Lupe Fiasco
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My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
— Mike Myers
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
— Bertrand Russell
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So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a…
— Brandon Sanderson
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