"Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be,"

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Source : Edward Snowden’s Christmas speech to the U.K., www.dailydot.com. December 25, 2013.

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“As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin....they would be less concerned with playing nicely.”
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”
“Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.”
“That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin
“I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.”
“I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!”
“I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.”
“Together we can help create a peaceful, just, sustainable and healthy world.”

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