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A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.

~Caterina Fake

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As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Be True Believe Best Dad Dominance Failing Greatest Kindness Knew Led Often Opposite Others Over Portrayed Recognize Show Sign Society Something Strength Superiority Too True Weakness While

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U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Deeper Dominance Economy Flows Might Military Our Power Product U.s. Economy Way Yes

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The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Always Dominance Dominate Effect Intention Result

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In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Additional American Arab Cooperation Dominance East Even Failure Iran Israeli-Palestinian Issues Leaders Less Likely Making Middle Middle East Nuclear Program States Stop Struggle Understood United United States Weakness

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People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Attention Between Cultural Culture Distinction Dominance Drawing Gain Interactions Kinds Make Open Open Source Others Over People Societies Source Status Study Two Who You Yourself

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Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's dominant economic power. But our dominance is not pre-ordained - history does not roll along on the wheels of inevitability.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: Along America Does Dominance Dominant Economic Economic Power Hard Hard Work History Inevitability Ingenuity Much Our Own Power Roll Spent Through Wheels Work World

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On its face, Donald Trump's hateful musings about women and his boastful claims of sexual dominance should be reason alone to drive him from polite society and certainly to blockade him from the West Wing. Yet somehow, his misogyny has instead propelled his campaign to the brink of the Republican nomination.

~Franklin Foer

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Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Constantly Dominance Drive Extraordinarily Male Position Strong

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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: Achievement Aid Clause Dominance Effort End Films Foreign Generally Home Made Markets Massive Packages Politically Pushed Second Second World War Secure Since States Treaties United United States Various War World World War Writing

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