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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#disposable #information #lack #lament #nature

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i

We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#care #decisions #families #health #health care

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. ↗

— John Lithgow

#day #doing #dramatic #every #every day

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. ↗

— John Lithgow

#discovery #doing #exhilarating #film #i

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #arguing #cal

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. ↗

— Eric Liu

#country #course #create #efforts #history

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve