"What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of."

-- Glenn Greenwald

#Thinking Quotes #Nsa Quotes #Surveillance Quotes

“... France is the genius among nations.”
“Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.”
“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.”
“I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said Joyce. I looked sideways but Joyce was not smiling. I thought of [French novelist Gustave] Flaubert. "You've been seeking the mot juste?" I said. No," said Joyce. "I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence.”
“Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.”

Source : Mike Matheny, Jerry B. Jenkins (2015). “The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life”, p.155, Three Rivers Press
“I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared.”
“I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.”
“What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!”

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