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If a system becomes weak enough and the opposition divided enough, if the ruling order is corrupt enough and people are angry enough, extremists can suddenly step into the center, where no one expects them. And after that it can take decades to undo the damage.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)

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In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
-- Nicholas Chamfort

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
-- Pierre Bayle

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What you do thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed -- everything else is public relations.
-- George Orwell

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-- Galileo Galilei

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We have some of the smartest engineers in the country getting paid millions of dollars to turn supercomputers into slot machines and dopamine delivery systems for teenage girls.
-- Tristan Harris

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I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
-- Petronius Arbiter (circa 60 CE)

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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-- Peter Ustinov

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Ingredients of Happiness: Friends, Freedom, and Reflection
-- Epicurus (341-270 BCE)

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If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
-- David Brooks (Newsweek)

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When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
-- C. P. Snow

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Why? ... Why not?
-- Timothy Leary (last words)

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Forget about the moral imperative of creating a more stable, just world. The world is becoming increasingly connected and intertwined. Allowing injustice and human despair to fester will ultimately bring a pay back, even to those who might think they are most immune from it.
-- Gerry McGovern (The Caring Economy)

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Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.
-- Socrates

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Open source is free like a puppy is free.
-- Scott McNealy (CEO, Sun Microsystems)

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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
-- Mary Oliver

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In the end, you're either a person who controls and uses computers or someone who is controlled and used by them.
-- Andy Ihnatko

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Nowadays, there's no imagination required, the realism is so advanced.
-- Videogame Aficionado

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If no one goes first, no one goes anywhere.
-- Anonymous

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There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald

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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)

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Tim was so learned he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
-- Benjamin Franklin

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Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
-- Steve Jobs

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The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
-- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams

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