"Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over."

-- Edward Snowden

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“Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.”
“Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is as it ought to be and the people live in freedom and comfort. But this was not achieved until recent centuries.”
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I awake, I pray the popular attend my wake.”
“Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.”
“It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.”
“This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.”

Source : "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". TODAY interview, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.
“After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.”
“We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and machines that shall stand among the wonders of the world; but unless we put the right man in the right place-unless we make it possible for our workers and executives alike to enjoy a sense of satisfaction in their jobs, our efforts will have been in vain.”

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