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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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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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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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I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. – Emily Carr

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

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