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Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!

— Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

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"Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes."

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"When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted."

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Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)

"What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete."

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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