"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live."

-- Joseph Conrad

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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“I think people imitate actors - things they've seen in a movie or on TV, and before you know it, they're doing something with their face or their mouth. It's from some actor they think is cool. They might not even know they're doing it, which is kind of funny.”
“In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of family law to an orthodox Court and have that judge, judge for them. As long as the courts don't violate the laws of the land and as long as there's a room for appeal should one or two parties disagree with the verdict, I don't see how this would have anything to do with being incompatible with what we refer to as Western ideas of democracy.”
“When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.”
“They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.”
“For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?”

Source : Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 2003.
“Some things are worth the wait.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 12, 2013
“I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.”

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