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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are often led to support injustice. - Elihu Root
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A sign of being older used to be not knowing what young people know. Now I think it's not knowing what they don't know.
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An ignorant people cannot remain a free people and democracy cannot survive too much ignorance. - Thomas Jefferson
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H.L. Mencken
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Attempting to cancel speech might be less about concern that the speech is harmful and more about wanting to have control over other people. That can be viscerally satisfying at a primal level.
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When you're young, you believe there
will be many people you'll connect with. Later in life you realize it only happens a few times. (from film "Before Sunrise")
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"Culture is a book of unwritten rules to the social game that is passed on to newcomers by its members, nesting itself in their minds." - Geert Hofstede
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Let's be honest. Social media is really no longer social. It's now just TV for the ADHD generation.
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A good friend said to me "... the things that challenge you can be your greatest source of strength. Dont shy from interrogating the things that hurt."
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ChatGPT is subject to woke-ism, which is of course a minority view when considered globally, and it colors the answers ChatGPT provides, so much so as to suppress otherwise relevant if not important knowledge.
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Be cautious about making connections based on shared hatred. Such bonds magnify the issues you oppose and lead you to being consumed by the things you can't stand. - RevolutionOf1
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When you鈥檙e disaffected, it鈥檚 easy to come across online communities that feels like a breath of fresh air, but when you breathe it in for too long you realise its just another harmful gas masquerading as oxygen. - Ayishat Akanbi
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Conversation with Gen Z student: "But my dad's generation had to figure things out. We have access to all the information. So it prevents us from practicing how to figure things out."
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"When hiring, look for the people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant." - Elon Musk
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Almost three-fourths of American millionaires started with no money. The rich get richer because they understand compound interest. They both embrace it (via investing), and avoid it (via credit card debt).
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The clearest and most present danger of AI is Deep Fakes. Big and small. For me, it began with amazement at Fake Tom Cruise. We've seen it in wartime propaganda.
Humans are wired to believe what they see.
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