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Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.
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The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
To survive, you must tell stories.
What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Love is wiser than wisdom.