The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Alain De Botton
Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.
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Demosthenes
Acknowledgements! My thanks to HollywoodWhen you showed me John RamboStitching up his arm with no anaesthetic And giving them “a war they won’t believe” I knew then my calling, the job for me Thanks also to the recruitment adverts For showing me soldiers whizzing around...
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Danny Martin
Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.
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Dennis Perrin
More Quotes By Clay Shirky
When we change the way we communicate, we change society
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
