"Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal."

-- Dorothy E. Denning

#Growing Up Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Next Quotes

“If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.”
“So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?”
“Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.”
“I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.”
“I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.”
“In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.”

Source : The English Digest, Vol. 57, p. 34, 1958.
“All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.”
“You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.”

Source : Douglas Preston (2009). “Blasphemy”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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