In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
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Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
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God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
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It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.
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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
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In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.
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