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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, o

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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Imagination
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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – Richard Powers

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Technology
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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – Richard Powers

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I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasnt responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. – Claire McCaskill

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Politics

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. Its a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics. – Dennis Kucinich

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I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle

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I hate injustice, and I cant help but speak against it. But I dont want to get involved in politics. – Serj Tankian

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Politics

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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The best man is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao. – Lao-Tzu

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You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. – John Barrymore

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