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“Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.”
Source : "Democracy in Cyberspace". Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010.
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“I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.”
Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016. 
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“I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.”
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“Yeah, I'm a great kisser.”
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“If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. . . . And, if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made - that you made - and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.”
Source : Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
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“Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.”
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“I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.”
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“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”
Source : Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44
