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A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your t

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are. – James Fallows

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The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far weve come from the cuddly old Im Feeling Lucky Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Googles evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like. – James Fallows

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design
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Over the eons Ive been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to simplify and bring order to my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. – James Fallows

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Computers
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to Chinas continued development. Thats according to me, but it is not some wacko view. – James Fallows

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environmental
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Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guys playing blues like we play, hes in high school. When he starts playing jazz its like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. – B. B. King

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Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

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Obviously, Ive been on sets before but nothing as big as Twilight. You forget sometimes that youre on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. Its such a great learning experience. – Booboo Stewart

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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, its to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure its well-received and lives in somebody else. – Yo-Yo Ma

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I dont think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. – Agatha Christie

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You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because theyve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything youll ever see on TV. – Harvey Pekar

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4 – Bible

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Its a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. – Anne Sullivan

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