"In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all."

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Source : Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.21, Penguin

#Issues Quotes #Important Quotes #Attention Quotes

“My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.”
“Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.”
“Power is the engine of the world,and sex and money its oil and lubricants.God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if you have no engine to start!God is a goli,a multi-flavoured pill,invented by those who have power,money and sex, to give to those who have none! Love is another great goli.Some days we too swallow these golis.They feel good,like a joint,a temporary high!But they are not the reality.The reality is power,money,sex! And yes,there's another goli-morality!”

Source : "The Story of My Assassins: A Novel".
“I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'”
“We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.”
“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.”
“We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school”
“To me, the harmonica is like a voice.”

Source : "Ben Harper And Charlie Musselwhite Get Muddy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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