"Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response."

-- Clay Shirky

#Powerful Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We talkin' about practice?”
“As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.”

Source : David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.505, Melville House
“Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.”
“You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society wonâ€™t change.”
“Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.”
“Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.”
“The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.”
“There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.”

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