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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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But it's not just a game of finding literary references. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#game #just #literary #references

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#been #complexity #definition #down #film

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. ↗

— Richard Simmons

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The only true source of politeness is consideration. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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