"When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes."

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Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.193, A&C Black

Robyn Davidson

#Be Prepared Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.”

Source : "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.
“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.”
“No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.”
“If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but it would also be theoretically impossible.”
“I drive an electric car.”
“We are collaborators in creation.”
“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.”

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