"If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price."

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Shannon Hale

#Brother Quotes #Listening Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?”

Source : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
“If you say â€˜weâ€™re in this together,â€™ Iâ€™m going to hurl.”
“Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.”

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.
“Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.”

Source : "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, 2010.
“Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness”
“A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.”
“I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."”
“The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,”

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