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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”

— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage.”

— William Goldman, The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

— Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

“Well," said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, "well, an old stump is a good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.”

— Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh. ‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet. ‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”

— A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh

“By choosing ‘leave,’ British voters demonstrated an unfortunate short-sightedness about how the world is changing and how hard it will be for any country with global ambitions to go it alone. With Brexit, both the U.K. and Europe are losing a lot more than a partnership. They're losing their best ch…”

— Michael Schuman, Who Wins From Brexit? China

“The varied nations of Europe understood that they'd be much stronger if they forged a common market with shared institutions and even a regional currency, the euro, than if they tried to compete as independent units... As a whole, the EU should in theory wield significant power in pressing Beijing t…”

— Michael Schuman, Who Wins From Brexit? China

“We are not on Facebook, where things are complicated. We are married or divorced but not something in between.”

— Xavier Bettel, EU strong enough to survive Brexit, no privileges to UK over exit talks – Merkel

“Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety

“I think that the Church not only should apologize … to a gay person whom it offended but it must also apologize to the poor as well, to the women who have been exploited, to children who have been exploited by (being forced to) work. It must apologize for having blessed so many weapons.”

— Pope Francis, Pope Francis Says Christians Should Apologize To Gay People

“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“"TV as a traditional medium is still important," said Rich Lehrfeld, senior VP-global brand marketing and communications, American Express. "When we run a heavy TV schedule, we see a lift in sales and product awareness. We need to run two weeks of digital to get the reach of one day of broadcast."”

— Rich Lehrfeld, Dear TV: We Love You. You're Perfect. Now Change. (But Not Too Much.)

“Second, the surveillance economy is way too dangerous. Even if you trust everyone spying on you right now, the data they're collecting will eventually be stolen or bought by people who scare you. We have no ability to secure large data collections over time.”

— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech

“When we talk about the moral economy of tech, we must confront the fact that we have created a powerful tool of social control. Those who run the surveillance apparatus understand its capabilities in a way the average citizen does not. My greatest fear is seeing the full might of the surveillance ap…”

— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech

“Those who benefit from the death of privacy attempt to frame our subjugation in terms of freedom, just like early factory owners talked about the sanctity of contract law. They insisted that a worker should have the right to agree to anything, from sixteen-hour days to unsafe working conditions, as…”

— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech

“Fortunately we are smart people and have found a way out of this predicament. Instead of relying on algorithms, which we can be accused of manipulating for our benefit, we have turned to machine learning, an ingenious way of disclaiming responsibility for anything. Machine learning is like money lau…”

— Maciej Cegłowski, The Moral Economy of Tech

“She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read a book and the book invariably had lines with sparks from her mind, the fire of her emotions flickered here and there, and words spoken the night before were written down, as if the author had over…”

— Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own…”

— Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best