"Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds."

Society, Technology, Escape, Comfort

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"Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds."

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"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

John Green, American Author

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

John Green, American Author

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"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And Englishmen like posing as gods."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy."

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"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."

Freedom

"From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game."

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"We go from curiosity to a search for communion."

Curiosity

"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."

Technology

"My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me."

Technology

"Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available."

Solitude

"Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one."

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"Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?"

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"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."

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