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

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

"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."

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

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

"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."

"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."

"Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves."

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

"This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this 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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