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The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Become Being Biases Biggest Biggest Problem Confirmed Constantly Facebook Fake Feedback Giant Give Google Hear Loops News People Problem Propaganda Susceptible Them Use Want Where World You Your

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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Ask Aware Become Becomes Being Connection Creates Directions Environment Having Help Journey Kind Led Less Navigate Opportunity Other Out People Phone Places Puzzle Social Staring Which You Your Yourself

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Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: About Behave Being Competitive Humans Ideas Less Marketplace More Our Perpetually Present Privacy Risk Sense Survive Technology Trajectory Watched Will

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Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

~Franklin P. Jones

Topics: Afraid Being Bravery Knows Only Who You

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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

~Franklin P. Jones

Topics: Appreciate Being Nobody Trouble

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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

~Franklin P. Jones

Topics: Being Being There Makes More Neighbor Noisy Nothing Party Than Tolerant You

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Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: About Being Bigger Biggest Black Elephant Gay Handicap Large Married Office Point Politician Religion Running States Than United United States Unmarried

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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Animals Being Cover Culture Disney Donald Duck Education Entertainment Example Examples For Example Forget George George Orwell Human Ills Laid Livestock Made Mickey Mouse Over Popular Popular Culture Population Propaganda Purposes Satire Societal Sort Us Walt Walt Disney

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In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Africa Animals Being Bush Cities Food Forests Large Luxury Means Meat Scale Sold Trade Very Which

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I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic.

~Frans Van Houten

Topics: Being China Expectations Forward Going Growth Just Modest More Much Need Realistic Regard Think I Think

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