"It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector."

-- Irving Kristol

#War Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.”
“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void”
“My book sales make 'real writers' possible.”
“One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.”

Source : "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.
“We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.”
“A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.”
“Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.”

Source : Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”
“I stay subjective because that's what I do. That's one of my abilities. I don't need to watch it because I've had the adventure. I don't do low-budget acting. I do the same acting, whether I'm in a Jim Cameron or not. I always try to do good work. There's no snobbery in there”

Source : Source: collider.com

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