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"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."

"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
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"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place."

"Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas."

"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."
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