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Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

~Evelyn Glennie

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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

~Evelyn Waugh

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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

~Evelyn Waugh

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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

~Everett Dirksen

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Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.

~Evgeny Morozov

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Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

~Evgeny Morozov

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However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.

~Evgeny Morozov

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My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.

~Evgeny Morozov

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If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

~Evgeny Morozov

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To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from Washington.

~Evgeny Morozov

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