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"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences."

"After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted."

"Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it."

"When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives."

"The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school."

"People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands."
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