"It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public."

-- Clay Shirky

#Used Quotes #Security Quotes

“Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.”
“How many pages are there in my life?? Iâ€™ve read only a prologue.. But personally itâ€™s exciting already.”
“I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.”
“How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.”
“An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.”
“Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.”

Source : "Characteristics", Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I. Sect. V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.
“And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel." Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.”

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