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  1. The screen provides a refuge, a mediated world that is more predictable, more tractable, and above all safer than the recalcitrant world of things.
    We flock to the virtual because the real demands too much of us.
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    Technology

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  2. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #689

  3. Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. |
     

    Life and Death

    #685

  4. Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #682

  5. The best is the enemy of the good. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #681

  6. Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #668

  7. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try to sleep with a mosquito in a room. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #664

  8. It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. |
     

    Mankind

    #660

  9. I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love. |
     

    Love

    #658

  10. As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #641

  11. I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.... |
     

    Life and Death

    #636

  12. Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. |
     

    Mankind

    #634

  13. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |
     

    Work

    #626

  14. He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #625

  15. If your plan is for one year, plant rice; If your plan is for ten years, plant trees; If your plan is for a hundred years, educate children. |
     

    Mankind

    #623

  16. I never lose. I either win, or learn. |
     

    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #620

  17. Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. |
     

    Career

    #617

  18. Men have become the tools of their tools. |
     

    Technology

    #616

  19. This world is but a canvas to our imagination. |
     

    Creativity

    #610

  20. There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. |
     

    Design

    #606

  21. Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. |
     

    Love

    #604

  22. We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album? |
     

    Mankind

    #598

  23. I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true. |
     

    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #597

  24. When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying. |
     

    Life and Death

    #595