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When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information... Anna C. Brackett
Christopher Hitchens quote: "I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on..."
I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. Christopher Hitchens
Martin Amis quote: "Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I..."
Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette. Martin Amis
She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless—an interesting logic was at work there. J. G. Ballard
Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly. Robert Fulghum
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior. Herbert Marcuse
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission. Robert Anton Wilson
The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation,... George Washington
Stephen King quote: "Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly."
Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. Stephen King
All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now. Joseph Mitchell
Alain de Botton quote: "Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing..."
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. Alain de Botton
Harlan Ellison quote: "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your..."
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain. Orson Scott Card
Julian Barnes quote: "books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look..."
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. Julian Barnes
Anti-sabbatical: A job taken with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete or designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intentions Doug Coupland

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