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“It is an under acknowledged truism that,
just as you are what you eat,
how and what you think depends on what
information you are exposed to.”;
── Tim Wu, The Master Switch, 2010, p.13.
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→ Because I don't know what lies behind something, I cann't keep up, and at something of a disadvantage. And that's no way to live. To be uninformed and entirely at someone else's mercy. (Netflix streaming show, The Crown, first season, episode 7, “Scientia Potentia Est”)
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Ranjana Srivastava, A cancer companion : an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, 2014
p.265
For some people, knowledge is indeed power but for others it creates anxiety and a sense of helplessness.
(A cancer companion : an oncologist's advice on diagnosis, treatment, and recovery / Ranjana Srivastava., 1. cancer──patients., 2. cancer──diagnosis., 3. cancer──treatment., RC263.S67 2015, 616.99'4──dc23, 2014, )
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To quote Marcel Proust:
Each reader reads only what is already inside herself.
A [TEXT] is only a sort of optical instrument which the
writer offers to let the reader discover for herself
what she would not have found without the aid of the
[TEXT].
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