"Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed."

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Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

Aaron Swartz

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Life Changing Quotes

“Most battles are won before they are ever fought.”
“The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.”
“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt
“A man is always better than he thinks.”
“There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.”
“I text my girlfriends. I look at Facebook. I check my e-mail. If I'm away from the news cycle more than a few hours, I feel out of touch.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.”
“Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.”

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