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“Resentment is like drinking a poison and then waiting for the other person to die.”

— Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela

“When starting Re/code, Swisher and Mossberg raised $10 million at a ~$28 million valuation from NBCUniversal and Windsor Media. A source who has viewed the startup's financials says Re/code was projected to generate $12 million this year, up from $10 million last year... The Re/code acquisition was…”

— Alyson Shontell, Why Re/code, an 18-month-old tech news startup, really sold to Vox

“People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”

— C Joybell C, C. Joybell C. Dot Com

“Although the terms of the Knowingly purchase haven’t been made public, sources who looked into buying some or all of the assets said the initial price for the editorial part of the company was $6 million, but eventually that was reduced to $1 million, and still many bidders backed out—in part becaus…”

— Matthew Ingram, Can a news site be reborn? Gigaom readers are about to find out

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince

“U.S. adults spent 10 hours, 39 minutes a day consuming media in the first quarter of 2016. That's up a full hour from the first quarter of 2015, and it's thanks to a substantial increase in smartphone and tablet usage, according to Nielsen's Q1 2016 Total Audience Report.”

— Jason Lynch, U.S. Adults Consume an Entire Hour More of Media Per Day Than They Did Just Last Year

“However much you have been wanting and hoping and dreaming of meeting the person of your dreams, it is only when you meet them that you will start missing them.”

— Adam Phillips, Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

— Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.”

— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“In television, four large media companies account for half of all cable advertising, according to an analysis by the digital-media analyst Matthew Ball. They are Time Warner, Disney, NBCUniversal, and 21st Century Fox. But just two companies, Facebook and Google, account for half of all digital-medi…”

— Derek Thompson, Can the News Survive in the Age of Mobile?

“How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.”

— Karen Harrington, Sure Signs of Crazy

“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”

— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“The entire net growth in digital advertising is happening in mobile. Since 2011, desktop advertising has fallen by about 10 percent, according to Pew. Meanwhile mobile advertising has grown by a factor of 30, reaching about $32 billion in 2015.”

— Derek Thompson, Can the News Survive in the Age of Mobile?

“If you wanna know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops, the ones you catch is how much you miss me, & the other you miss is how much I miss you!”

— Anonymous, boardofwisdom.com

“U.S. advertising is declining as a share of GDP. Total national ad spending, as a percentage of the economy, has fallen by a third since 2000 and now hovers near its lowest levels since the end of World War II, before the rise of television.”

— Derek Thompson, Can the News Survive in the Age of Mobile?

“Revenue from [television] ads increased more than 60 percent a year for the first five years of the decade, so that by 1955, television accounted for nearly 20 percent of total U.S. media advertising.”

— Derek Thompson, Can the News Survive in the Age of Mobile?

“We're never so vulnerable as when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”

— Walter Anderson, The Speed Of Trust

“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.”

— Tegan and Sara Quin, Missing You

“I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the way you made me eat breakfasts and I miss the way you made me laugh. I miss you.”

— Himmilicious, himmilicious.in