"When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents."

-- Evgeny Morozov

#Running Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.”
“Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous flow, the elasticity of the gas pushing its particles into space will continuously push the cask itself. The result will a continuous change in the motion of the cask. Given a sufficient number of taps (say, six), we would be able to regulate the outflow of the gas as we liked and the cask (or sphere) would describe any curved line in accordance with any law of velocities.”
“The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.”
“When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.”

Source : "Democrats Push Voter Protection While GOP Shout Voter Fraud in a Crowded Polling Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.
“I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.”
“One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.”
“I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.”

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