"We and others have done a bunch of……" — Nicholas A. Christakis
"We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends."
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16 Quotes by Nicholas A. Christakis
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Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one…
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of…
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Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
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It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face…
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I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
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It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a…
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
— Arlene Francis
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To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new…
— Michael Jackson
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In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among…
— Kate Winslet
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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so,…
— Mark Twain
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I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord…
— D. H. Lawrence
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