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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

— Daniel J. Boorstin The Republic of Technology (1978)

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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer.

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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

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