"The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy."

-- Cory Doctorow

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“The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.”
“Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.”
“Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.”
“I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible.”
“Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.”
“Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...”
“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”
“I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.”

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