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The future of the book is the blurb.

— Marshall McLuhan, McLuhanisms

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You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

— Heraclitus, Heraclitus - Wikiquote

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[There is] a very general psychological theme, namely, that there will always be more things in a closed, than in an open, box. To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience

— Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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The best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets.

— Dr. Mark Mobius, Let's Make Money (2008)

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The synthetic cell is called Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 and is the proof of principle that genomes can be designed in the computer, chemically made in the laboratory and transplanted into a recipient cell to produce a new self-replicating cell controlled only by the synthetic genome.

— J. Craig Venter Institute press release, JCVI: First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell Constructed by J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

— Donald Wayne Foster, Wikipedia

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It’s the same thing with your desires, your feelings, and your thought. The familiarity and the human aspects of these things vanish on examination.

— Paul Valéry, The OpenEnded Group - On the example set by Paul Valéry

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All criticism is really about the critic.

— Chris Hanney, No title

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A wise man does not burn his bridges, until he first knows he can part the waters.

— Norman Wilson, A New Day (The Wire)

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The profound hides in plain sight as the trivial.

— JP LeBreton, Twitter / JP LeBreton: The profound hides in plai ...

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I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

— Confucius, Google Search

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