What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.

Joshua Cohen

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While impact monitors can be used as a guide to indicate potential risk and improve training and evaluation techniques, experts stress that these new technologies can not diagnose a concussion. None of [ it ] takes into account what actually happens inside the brain because of those hits or the duration of time that that hit happens, all which will affect the likelihood of getting a concussion and will determine how severe the concussion could be.

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health

In general, people are not opposed to a company making a profit, but it is the degree of profit that is made which raises red flags, it's OK to have a free market, but it needs to be a healthy free market, one with real generic competition in order to help bend the cost curve.

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health-news

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

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cannot only through language

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

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place internet technology writing

The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic.

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muslim jewish mystery heaven

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

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never myself privatization europe

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

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us give back technology

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

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survive american think literature

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.

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nothing new mind ideas

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

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words computers language animal

The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

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never myself internet work

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

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phone day night people

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

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whatever still prove america

What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting.

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something always want book

Books were in my family - books were my family.

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books were family

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

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every bad literature time

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

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coffee impossible book world

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

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classic internet political brother

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

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rules you want world

All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

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day me politics business