"The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever."

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Source : "My First Flame". Brave New World Dept., www.newyorker.com. June 6, 1994.

John Seabrook

#Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”
“I've been to many gay and straight clubs and I have fun in every one of them. It's always great to hear my music played and to be there with everyone.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until it seems to fall from the sky. I am thrilled. I am grateful. Then, by the end of morning, he's gone, nothing but silence out of the tree where he rested for a night. And this I find acceptable. Not enough is a poor life. But too much is, well, too much. Imagine Verdi or Mahler every day, all day. It would exhaust anyone.”
“On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park....”
“Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.”
“I'm not gonna date anyone since i'm married to my fans”
“I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.”
“Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ...”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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