"People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are."

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Source : Max Barry (2013). “Lexicon”, p.128, Hachette UK

Max Barry

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“Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to 'tell us what kind of car to drive'. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do...and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.”

Source : "Rewriting the rulebook for 21st-century capitalism" by Jeffrey Sachs, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.
“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”
“Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.”
“I think sometimes when people start doing improv there's some regression towards trying to replicate the "good" improvisers that they've read about in their improv books or heard about from their teachers. That's understandable, because they're trying to learn technique and stuff, but I actually think that my favorite performers are ones who have unique improv technique but also have a unique point of view that you can feel with them and their performances.”
“Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.”
“One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.”
“No border that touches Israel is always secure.”
“I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.”

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