"In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship."

-- Cornelius Nepos

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“You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.”
“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.”
“Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'”

Source : "Ron Conway: S.F. mover and shaker" by Heather Knight, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2012.
“It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.”

Source : Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.
“Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!”
“All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane ...”
“A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!”
“What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.”

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