"Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeÂ—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?"

-- Cory Doctorow

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Surveillance Quotes

“Be strong to be useful.”
“Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations". Book by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, p. 53, 1994.
“We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.”

Source : John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint
“A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.”

Source : Elizabeth Prettejohn (1998). “Rossetti and His Circle”, Stewart Tabori & Chang
“You can't win what you don't fight for.”

Source : Joan Steinau Lester, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Coretta Scott King (2004). “Fire in My Soul”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”

Source : "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.
“We realize that by criticizing Jewish fundamentalism we are criticizing a part of the past that we love. We wish that members of every human grouping would criticize their own past, even before criticizing others.”

Source : "Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel". Book by Israel Shahak, 1997.
“What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.”

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