"Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism."

-- Cass Sunstein

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“You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.”
“I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.”
“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
“I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.”
“I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.”

Source : "Andy Stern: The exit interview". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.
“When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.”
“Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.”
“All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.”

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