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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to intera

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! – Noam Chomsky

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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. – Noam Chomsky

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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. – Noam Chomsky

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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. – Noam Chomsky

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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. – Edward Sapir

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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural. – Alexander Graham Bell

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One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. – Georges Simenon

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communication

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. Ive had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand. – Sarah McLachlan

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Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. – Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726

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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? – Marquis De Custine

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As a father now, I wouldnt do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didnt do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. – Anthony Kiedis

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You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. – Rose Maccaulay

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