"Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority."

-- Harlan F. Stone

#Creative Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.”
“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.”
“God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.”
“If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.”
“[Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.”

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“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.”
“We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.”
“In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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