"Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future."

-- George H. Mead

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“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.”
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”
“Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.”
“Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.”
“Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.”

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“Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.”
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
“Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'”

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