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Information Quotes
"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
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"The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg."
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"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."
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"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
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"No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely."
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"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
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"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."
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"Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored."
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"I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had."
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"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them."
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"For your information, I would like to ask a question."
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"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."
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"Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use."
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"I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations."
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"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States."
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"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."
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"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
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"So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state."
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"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
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"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."
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"I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information."
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"A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked."
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"I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media."
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"Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions."
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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
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"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."
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"Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel."
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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself."
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"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."
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"It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material."
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"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."
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"So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear."
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"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."
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"If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost."
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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."
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"Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A."
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"I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research."
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"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
"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."
"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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