"Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives."

-- Clive Thompson

#Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“I can charm my way out of a situation when I screw up.”

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“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?”
“We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.”
“I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.”
“What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal species seem open and willing to control, assert dominance, and behave cruelly. That's a whole kind of new nightmare to really have to face about your own species. That we are, in some respects, cannibalistic, in that we are willing to destroy ourselves. That's really something for me to be exploring over the long haul.”

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“Regardless of how distant your dreams may seem, every second counts.”
“God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.”
“Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.”

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