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“The economy is in a depression, and the United States has become a fascist state where the government uses TV and giant screens in the neighborhoods to distract people from the fact that nobody has a job.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.” Voltaire, Candide
“Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself” JAY-Z, Decoded
“nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly...” Albert Camus, The Plague

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