"The Steve Jobs who founded Apple as an anarchic company promoting the message of freedom, whose first projects with Stephen Wozniak were pirate boxes and computers with open schematics, would be taken aback by the future that Apple is forging. Today there is no tech company that looks more like the Big Brother from Appleâ€™s iconic 1984 commercial than Apple itself, a testament to how quickly power can corrupt."

-- Mike Daisey

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“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.”
“Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.”

Source : Ann Leckie (2013). “Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD WINNER”, p.118, Hachette UK
“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.”
“It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.”
“For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.”
“I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.”

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