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• Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared "e-mail bankruptcy.

  Susan Maushart

  Overwhelmed, Boxes, Bankruptcy

  Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.79, Penguin

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• E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

  John Caudwell

  Cancer, Modern Business, Modern

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• I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u so I banned it immediately.

  John Caudwell

  Phones, Saws, Banned

  "Firm bans e-mail at work", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2003.

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• Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

  Bill Dedman

  Issues, Government, States

  "Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’" by Bill Dedman, www.nbcnews.com. March 18, 2011.

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• People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• Everyone likes to differentiate between business and consumers but I don't see the difference really. Most people are people. I get personal and business mail and I have one set of contacts from my life. I don't want to manage two sets. I want one view of my world.

  Steve Ballmer

  Views, Two, Differences

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• You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun.

  Lee Trevino

  Fun, Golf, Doors

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• Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime.

  Edward Snowden

  Writing, Government, Cells

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.

  John McAfee

  Years, Ideas, Viruses

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

  Dolly Parton

  Hate, Gay, People

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• Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt $35,000 to make a commercial for margarine. She reported that her mail was equally divided. "One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation." Not one of my proudest memories.

  David Ogilvy

  Memories, Half, Way

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• My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Clothes, Blue, Long

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• The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the C.D.A. would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Communication, Adults, Village

  "Excerpts From Opinions of Judges on Blocking Enforcement of InternetLaw". www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.

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• I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.

  Walter Cronkite

  Order, Years, People

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Hate, Real

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2017

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• Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

  Richard Branson

  Lying, Order, Skills

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• People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Text Messaging, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Voice, Giving, Able

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• When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

  Tom Rath

  Stress, Communication, Home

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Addresses, Conspiracy

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• [Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

  Adam Carolla

  Government, People, Giving

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• The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

  David I. Rozenberg

  Lines, Soup, Modern

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• People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

  Judy Woodruff

  Creativity, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?'

  Robbie Rist

  Knights, Giving, Car

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• E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them.

  Christopher Buckley

  Herpes

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