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Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Able Around Bus Children Country Did Father Go Like Live Now Three Young

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I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I usually go to a Barnes & Noble cafe or to the library on 5th and 42nd. In the afternoons, I do research, reading, editing, and play with the kids.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Afternoon Anyway Around Cafe Change Editing Energy Go Kids Library Like Noble Noise Play Prefer Reading Research Some Surroundings White

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If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.

~Douglas Conant

Topics: Advantage Around Back Been Companies Company Fighting Form Get Heartbeat Hundred Hundred Years Long Long Time Other Smell Take Take Advantage Takes Time Will Wounded Years You

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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Around Being Billion Built Earth Million Million People Passionate People Roots Running Six Things Two World

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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Around Avoid Because Experiences Families Instead Know Many Need Our Precisely Shared Subjects Talk Which

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I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Always Around Banging Come End Home Hours Just Piano Play School Songs Written

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You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

~Douglas Hofstadter

Topics: Around Being Brain Brains Clearly Copy Detailed Dies Elaborate Exists Imagine Less Longer Original Other Pattern People Person Soul Versions Very You

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All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

~Douglas R. Oberhelman

Topics: Around Children Compete Competitors Country Down Down The Road Every Grandchildren Infrastructure Investing More More And More Our Percentage Road Than Will World Gdp

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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Around Attention Best Biases Cell Cell Phones Check Devices Driving Embedded Even Every Every Time Feeling Going Know Message Our Pay Pay Attention Phones Real Real World Text The Real World Time Us While World E-Mail

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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Allowing Along Around Came Create Culture Devices Digital First Instead More Ourselves Shift Somehow Supposed Time Us

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