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Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon — Marc Andreessen
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to… — Jane Smiley
I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a… — Lynn Hill
The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life… — Jerry Rubin
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or… — James Kelman
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional… — Jonathan Ive
And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our… — Marilyn Manson
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All… — Tim Vine
A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community. — Martin O'Malley
The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism. — Kate Millett
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if… — Cat Stevens
I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past, — Jeffrey Katzenberg
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great… — Pete La Roca
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed… — David Eugene Edwards
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both… — A J P Taylor
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what… — James Turrell
Seal the Deal, more than a traditional book, is a series of powerful coaching sessions dealing with a big breakdown that many excellent coaches and… — Julio Olalla
Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive. — David Holmgren
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and… — Pat Roberts
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if… — Adolf Loos
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things;… — Lascelles Abercrombie
The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are… — Harry Chapin
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The… — David Graeber
If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he… — Robert Ruark

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