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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#extent #influence #kind #measured #surface

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#contact #easier #facebook #few #fits

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#everything #eyes #fix #make #perfection

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#dignity #knowledge #mind #quality #quantity

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#air #body #cheering #communication #cut

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#anything #could #else #facebook #friends

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#ever #experience #into #lost #nothing

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#get #i #i can #imagine #luxury

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#bigger #bubbles #china #credit #excess