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• Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts box that says, “Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Simple, Giving, Comfort

  Tom Vanderbilt (2008). “Traffic”, p.187, Vintage

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• We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version.

  John Carmack

  Games, People, Platforms

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• If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Country, Memories, Distance

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Feb 25, 2012

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• Everyone with the new generation is about the social network and YouTube, so if you put a proper version of what it should ideally be, I think it's great. All the stuff on YouTube is there as a back-up! I think that's the way it should be.

  Kerry Ellis

  Thinking, Generations, Stuff

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In principle the first thing on the stream would be my birth certificate, a little electronic version of that, my parents would put my school records, health records, whatever of their child onto the stream. And the stream continues to flow forward through time.

  David Gelernter

  Children, School, Parent

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

  Bill Reid

  Ravens, Years, Personality

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• It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

  Bill Reid

  Attitude, Believe, Ravens

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• I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

  Josephine Hart

  Reality, Thinking, Accepting

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

  Erica Jong

  Dog, Play, Knows

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.8, Penguin

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• I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, People, Males

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Wise, Distance, Character

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• Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

  Walter Lippmann

  Looks, Sap, Opponents

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any religion is only a fragment of God. This has to be true, because a being who is unbounded has no image, no role to play, no location either inside or outside the cosmos, whereas religions offer many images--father, mother, lawgiver, judge, ruler of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Father, Real

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• I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Believe, Kids

  Jessica Alba (2013). “The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You”, p.181, Rodale

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• Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Long, Vision, Drs

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Intellectual, Would Be, Today

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Individualized Society”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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• In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

  Warren Farrell

  Past, Men, Careers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

  Stewart Brand

  Giving Up, Believe, Fighting

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.223, Penguin

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• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Anxiety, Guilt

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• A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

  Ben Gibbard

  Disappointment, Moving, People

  "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.

  Keri Russell

  Real, Giving, Want

  "Keri Russell and Producer Stephenie Meyer Talk AUSTENLAND and the Lasting Appeal of Jane Austen Stories". Press conference, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?

  Beck

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Blender magazine, October 2002.

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• In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Community, Looks

  Re: Irish road-signs are now metric (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 21, 2005.

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• No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Loss, Serious, Students

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86, 1949.

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• Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

  Phil Vischer

  Simple, College, Yale

  "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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