Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Shoshana Zuboff
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~ Tom Baker
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JANE AUSTEN Condiments are like old friends-highly thought of, but often taken for granted.
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BARACK OBAMA