"You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'"

-- Howard Rheingold

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“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.”
“Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis. There is no way forward without ending the occupation.”
“My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.”
“I think only an idiot can be an atheist.”
“Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.”
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”
“Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.”
“The Almighty has His own purposes.”

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