"If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone."

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Evgeny Morozov

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“By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.”
“The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.”
“I'm learning how to work my voice. I got some songs that you probably wouldn't even know it's me singing on there. I will sit there and take 20 takes until I hit that note right. It's different on stage - you've got to hit the notes that one time.”

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“Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.”
“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”
“I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen it in Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan and, heaven knows, Hillary Clinton. So the problem has not been solved.”
“So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isnâ€™t much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. Thatâ€™s a helluva qualification for president, isnâ€™t it?”
“Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.”

Source : Fannie Hurst (1959). “Imitation of Life”, New York : Permabooks

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