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"His cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
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"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
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"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."
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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
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"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"Eventually he'd let the answering machine take over and had hidden in his studio. Where he's hidden all his life. From the monster. He could feel itin their bedroom now. He could feel its tail swishing by him. Feel its hot, fetid breath.All his life he knew if he was quiet enough, small enough, it wouldnn't see him. If he didn't make a fuss, didn't speak up, it wouldn't hear him, wouldn't hurt him. If he was beyond criticism and hid his cruelty with a smile and good deeds, it wouldn't devour him. By now he realized there was no hiding. It would always be there, and always find him. He was the monster."
Fear
"Where there is love there is courage,where there is courage there is peace,where there is peace there is God.And when you have God, you have everything."
Peace
"A lot of what we know to be history isn't it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned."
History
"They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were."
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"She taught me that life goes on, and that I had a choice. To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained."
Gratitude
"And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something."
Healing
"Nice hair.' Olivier turned to Clara, hoping to break the tension.'Thank you.' Clara ran her hands through it, making it stand on end as though she'd just had a scare.'You're right.' Olivier turned to Myrna. 'She looks like a frightened doughboy from the trenches of Vimy. Not many people could carry off that look. Very bold, very new millennium. I salute you.'Clara narrowed her eyes and glared at Myrna whose smile went from ear to ear."
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"Jesus, is Gamache hiring fetuses now?"
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"And all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge."
Wisdom
"Do you know the sums that I do? 'I count my blessings."
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