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Notice how frequently the Wall Street Journal brings people into its stories with a quotation and the effect on the credibility of argument. Suddenly, it's no longer up to the writer to persuade. It's up to the chosen authority.

It's no surprise that Warhol did the guest-star stunt (Halston once observed that Warhol "would go to the opening of a drawer").

"If you see a banker jump out the window, jump after him-there's sure to be profit in it," said Voltaire.

"Trusting the government with your privacy," snorted Wired magazine, "is like having a Peeping Tom install your window blinds."

"In the Information Age," says education consultant Margaret Reil, "factual knowledge is plentiful. What is scarce is the intellectual work of giving value to information, of transforming information into useful knowledge systems. This is the work of communities."

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