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Instagram creates a disarming sense of intimacy with people you’ve never met.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
~ James Gleick
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I don’t think you can bet against America. The country has been remarkably resilient over time. At the same time, I view the sickness that we face as being pretty deep. And I also view the challenges that we have to navigate together as being more profound than any we’ve faced in our history.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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To cast our recurring panics as technophobic reruns is to misidentify what animates them most: Not fear, but helplessness.
~ John Herrman
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