Marie-Louise von Franz
Psychologist, Author
"Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?"
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James Lee Burke
Author
"You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home."
Eliot Spitzer
Politician
"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing"
Bernard Williams
Philosopher
"Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life."
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"The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls."
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"E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being."
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"E-mails are the new herpes: You never get rid of them."
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"E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it."
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"SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail."
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"Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world."
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"What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get."
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"Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking."
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"The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply."
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"I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail."
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"I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore."
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"If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day."
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"Network marketing itself is always one-on-one. It's also called relationship marketing. You can't recruit en masse through thousands of e-mails."
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"I get mail; therefore I am."
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"Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy.""
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"I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show.""
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"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
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"People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online."
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"I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities."
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"Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted."
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