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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."
"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
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