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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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Personal Development
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
Certainty
"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
Information
"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
Future
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
Future
"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
Technology
"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
Time
"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."
Dream
"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
Evil
"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."
Experience
"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."
Communication
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