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" Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. " - David Strathairn

" Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth. Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free. " - Michelle Alexander

" I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. " - Murray Gell-Mann

" I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. " - Al Seckel

" Pat O’Brien knows nothing. He’s on the Hell express. " - Rob Corddry

" Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. " - Harold Pinter

" As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on. " - Roger Penrose

" I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back. " - Ken Follett

" We have recently moved into an era when… everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal. " - Thomas Pynchon

" ‘Satellite archaeology’ refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. " - Sarah Parcak