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It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

~Dianne Feinstein

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Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

~Don Rickles

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We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Ask Away Cell Cell Phone Client Close Conversations Enough Even Know Less Likely Lover Make Mind Off Open Other People Phone Phones Prospective Puts Putting Realize Sign Start Table Them Turned Turning You

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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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Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Being Big Cell Cell Phones Computers Corporate Data Everyone Everything Facebook Free Gifts Know Knows Most Our Pay Phones Recorded Say Should Think Throughout Type Why You

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Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Cell Cell Phone Experience Getting Landscape Modern Own Phone Strategy Terms Through Urban Your Yourself

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I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

~Douglas Tompkins

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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Backwards Cell Cell Phone Culture Device Entire Everything Goes Hold Just Phone Production Seconds Think Through Up Without Wrapped You Your

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Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

~Douglas Tompkins

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New cell phones are my weakness.

~Duncan D. Hunter

Topics: Cell Cell Phones New Phones Weakness

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