"With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music."

-- Ian MacKaye

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“I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?”
“I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing around with the kids, so no one can reach me. Blissful. I heartily recommend it.”
“I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.”
“The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.”
“The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Hussein had, we don't know where they are. That means terrorists have access to all of that.”
“Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . .Â There is a vast difference between [that] reputation . . . Â and the charge which he is the object, whichÂ is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.”
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
“I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.”

Source : Louis Bayard (2009). “The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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