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

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."

"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."

"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."

"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."

"Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate."

"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."
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"If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness."

"Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early."

"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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