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- Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.
- John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93
- I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
- Ann Richards, 1988 keynote address, Democratic National Convention
- How you treat others is a direct reflection of how you feel about yourself.
- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
- I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost. - Maya Angelou (1928 - ), I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.
- Mena Trott, Times Online, 12-06-06
- The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
- He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
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