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“Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.”
Source : Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.30, Yale University Press
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“Tuesday night at the Bible study we lift our hands and pray over your body, but nothing ever happens.”
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“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.”
Source : "More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?". www.wsj.com. May 28, 2011. 
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“One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.”
Source : "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.
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“No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.”
Source : FaceBook post by John Jakes from Mar 16, 2015
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“Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the techniques of the laboratory, is the counterpart of modern industrialism, for which the factory is the prototype of human existence, and which models all branches of culture after production on the conveyor belt.”
Source : Max Horkheimer (2004). “EPZ Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black
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“I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!”
Source : Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.
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“Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.”
