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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anonymity #beyond #brought #deception #each

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation. ↗

— Peter Singer

#breaks #community #different #different sort #down

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#best interests #coaches #heart #interests #players

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#away #beneath #calm #crazy #duck

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#affect #emergencies #equipment #guard #home

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#common #corresponding #different #different elements #effect

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. ↗

— J. G. Stedman

#am #amongst #best #case #civilization

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#enables #especially #fans #grateful #happy

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#ago #american #band #country #distinctly