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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
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"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."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"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."

"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."

"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."

"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

"For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited."

"The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind."

"Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive."
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