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573 Site quotes by 436 unique authors

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel… — Julian Baggini
People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the… — Felix Dennis
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at… — Martin Filler
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing,… — Martin Filler
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station… — Abdul Kalam
In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they… — Evgeny Morozov
The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they… — Evgeny Morozov
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. — Douglas Rushkoff
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual… — Douglas Rushkoff
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… — Rebecca Solnit
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like… — Vladimir Nabokov
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say. — Italo Calvino
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom — Paul Auster
Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of… — Sarah Vowell
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at… — Mary Doria Russell
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins
Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has… — Gaston Bachelard
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that… — Stephen Fry
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth… — Jonathan Stroud
The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to… — Mitch Albom
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one… — Albert Camus

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