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I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Always Being Douglas Extraordinary Introduced Tony

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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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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

~Douglas Horton

Topics: Act After Being Highest Only Seeing Selfishness Sorry Value

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But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

~Douglas Hurd

Topics: Because Being Bound Cannot Deployed Follow Go Now Troops War Weapons

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Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

~Douglas Kennedy

Topics: Alive Always Being Ever Larger Pay Prices Tragedy Us

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The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

~Douglas Lain

Topics: Also Always Amusement Asked Being Fiction Fun Further Genre House Indirectly Just Park Problem Question Ride Science Science Fiction Think Want Who

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We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.

~Douglas Leone

Topics: Actually Being Benefit Creates Encourage Founders Having Individual Investors Our Problems Shown Star Team Think Work I Think

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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.

~Douglas R. Oberhelman

Topics: Am Being Country Future Future Generations Generations Grandchildren Great Human Human Being Like Made Make Many Nothing Our Ourselves Out Preserve Started Sure Through Up Virtually Way Worked I Am

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In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Being Better Current Digital Friends Futures Graph Guide History Information Itself Likes Market Moment Narrative Networking Order Our Personal Predict Product Profile Researchers Sense Snapshot Social Sold Succeeded Universe

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I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Being Book Books Bunch Could Delivering Efficient End Focused Goes Just Make Minerals More Print Really Should Sort Tablet Tablets Textbooks Than Think Up Way Where

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