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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. ↗

— Tom Clancy

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A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#else #getting #good #information #learn

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It's no longer two people. It's two people squared. ↗

— Jon Cryer

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I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books. ↗

— Richard Curtis

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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

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