"The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff."

-- Cathy O'Neil

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“So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.”
“I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.”

Source : "Films Come to Life with Stanley Clarke's Music". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. February 15, 2008.
“Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.”
“I decided to accept as true my own thinking.”
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres
“You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.”
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the worldâ€”I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

Source : World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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