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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Accessible Alarm Bathroom Been Cameras Clocks Computer Controlled Electric Embedded Home Lights Long Major Mundane Networks Now Objects Power Remotely Scales Similar Soon Systems Telephone Video Which Will

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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Around Been Black Case Embedded Got Idea Late Little Loosely Magnetic Millions Other Particles Prototype Researchers Rubber Sheet Side Since Soft Surface Used White Xerox 1970S

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Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Adopted Always Because Brutality Context Convince Could Deal Embedded Enjoyment Football Gambling Game Happened Itself Made Only Our Ourselves Perfectly Suited Television Which

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'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Also Embedded Illusions Inspired Main Many Novel Palace Stories Tale Which Within

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Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

~Christina Aguilera

Topics: Also Always Childhood Deep Embedded Feel Growing Growing Up Had Helpless Learned Make Man Me Need Never Stick Up Women

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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Each Embedded Entity Exist Extent Isolated Larger Only Other Pattern Patterns Same Short Size Smaller Supported Surround Which World

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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Appealing Cannot Conduct Confirm Daily Embedded Experiences However Ideologies Perceptions Shape Structure Them Unless Whole

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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

~Chuck Close

Topics: Art Artist Decision-Making Embedded Getting Joy Looking Part Process Record Some Sync Used Ways Work

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When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Access American Anybody Citizens City Community Court Day Embedded Equal Fabric Fight Idea Job Justice Kansas Kansas City Law Legal Our Political Political System Powerful Prosecutor Safety System Value

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When I served as a prosecutor, I saw firsthand the many injustices that are embedded in our communities. But I also saw the difference it can make in someone's life when they have someone to stand up and fight for them.

~Conner Eldridge

Topics: Also Communities Difference Embedded Fight Firsthand Injustices Life Make Many Our Prosecutor Saw Served Someone Stand Stand Up Them Up

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