"As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them."

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Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press

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“The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan
“Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.”
“I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.”
“All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?”
“Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.127, Penguin
“I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.”

Source : "Banging Everything in Sight: My Trip to the LA Gun Club" by Beau Willimon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.
“I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?”
“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”

Source : "Madam Secretary". Book by Madeleine Albright, 2003.

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