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• Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Civilization, World

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• The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

  Thomas Koerfer

  Art, Done, Doe

  Source: www.koerferfilm.com

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• Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mom, Children, Home

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• I'm a professional hanger outer. I'm a super liability, too. I joke around and I'm like a hyper-active child.

  Donal Logue

  Children, Liability, Active

  "Donal Logue Talks GOTHAM, Getting Renewed for Season 2 and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2015.

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• merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.

  Charles R. Morris

  Class, People, Starting Over

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but its my lot in life.

  Tina Fey

  Eye, Fire, Sea

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

  danah boyd

  Grease, Networking, Machines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

  Paul Conneally

  Technology, Looks, World

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• Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Density, Culture, Manhattan

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Years, Swings

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

  John Lasseter

  Smart, Views, Perfect

  "John Lasseter Talks CARS 2, BRAVE and the Future of Pixar". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 29, 2011.

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• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.

  Mark Steyn

  Ambition, Agency, Hands

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Crazy, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Couple, Real

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• By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism

  John Avlon

  Country, Crazy, America

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• The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

  Vince Cable

  School, Long, Expansion

  "Vincent Cable: Confiscating Savings From the Poor Is Stupid and Cruel". www.independent.co.uk. January 08, 2009.

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• I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

  Blake Judd

  Attitude, Intelligent, People

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

  Chris Hardwick

  Asking, World, Analyzing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Media, People, Age

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• And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

  George Pattison

  Letting Go, Goal, Waiting

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Female, Culture

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

  Todd Starnes

  People, Secret, Puff

  "Back to School: Let the left-wing indoctrination begin" by Todd Starnes, www.foxnews.com. September 1, 2015.

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• Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.

  Christopher Castellani

  Sweet, Children, Lying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

  Anna Quindlen

  Motherhood, Female, Made

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.312, Random House

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