"We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously."

-- Stephen Fry

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“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.”
“I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.”
“Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?”
“Prosecutors are allowed to cherry-pick what evidence, if any, that they do present to a grand jury. So the grand jury process overall is flawed. And that's why it should not be utilized in this case and so many cases that are similar to this.”

Source : "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.
“I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.”

Source : "Ornette Coleman: What I've Learned" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2009.
“what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.”

Source : Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.31, Random House
“There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.”
“I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.”

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