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We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#also #capital #communications #cost #deployment

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#criticism #enormous #film #film criticism #find

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action pictures #desires #feed #go #into

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greatest #only #others #parent #virtues

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#elected #i #legitimately #president #think

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#car #experience #forget #having #hours

The Academy is paranoid about its image. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#academy #image #paranoid

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#drowned #get #just #made #more

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#amendment #dominates #energy #first #first amendment