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• I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

  Scott Ritter

  True Friend, People, Drunk

  Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006.

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• Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Baby, Thinking, Order

  "Wigfield". Book by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, 2003.

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• Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Stress, War, Men

  "Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom" by Andrei Sakharov, ("The Threat to Intellectual Freedom"), www.sakharov-center.ru. 1968.

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• Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Mean, Giving

  "Of Their Choosing". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. September 20, 2007.

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• Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.

  Bon Scott

  Bullshit, Guy, Healthy

  Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.

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• In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.

  John Paul Stevens

  Marijuana, Expression, Issues

  Deborah Morse and the Juneau School Board, et al., Petitioners v. Joseph Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 2007.

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• It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

  Byron White

  Sight, Police, Doubt

  Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.

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• My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

  Thom Yorke

  Loyalty, Selfish, Viruses

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• If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

  Jamie Zawinski

  People, World, Want

  "Groupware Bad". www.jwz.org. February 15, 2005.

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• Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Ease, Today, Linux

  "Mouthing off about linux". www.jwz.org. 2000.

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• Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

  Jamie Zawinski

  College, Years, Dorms

  "Groupware Bad". www.jwz.org. 2005.

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• Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Mom, People, Focus

  "Groupware Bad". Article at Personal Website, www.jwz.org. 2005.

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• As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Teacher, Challenges, Negative

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• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Anxiety, Citizens, Normal

  "Ten Principles for a Black Swan-proof World". www.ft.com. April 07, 2009.

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• Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Wind, Independence

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• Simply put, we have to be smart about how we use our power. Not because we have less of it – indeed, the might of our military, the size of our economy, the influence of our diplomacy, and the creative energy of our people remain unrivaled. No, it's because as the world has changed, so too have the levers of power that can most effectively shape international affairs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Smart, People

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• As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

  William Mathews

  Money, Character, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.

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• In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

  Mike Godwin

  Knowing, Freedom Of Speech, Stronger

  Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business

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• I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.

  Mark Oliphant

  Country, Weapons, Plutonium

  "Portraits in Science". P. 31. Book by Ann Moyal, 1994.

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• Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

  Daniel Quinn

  Lying, Sleep, Pills

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “The Holy”, p.258, Steerforth

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• Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.

  Bob Proctor

  Lying, Thinking, Effort

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 11, 2017

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• When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
  Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

  Bob Proctor

  Giving, Hook, Today

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 14, 2013

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• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Perseverance, Character, Mean

  Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.186

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• There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

  Jenny Han

  Taken, Thinking, Giving

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.18, Scholastic UK

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• We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

  Walter Hilton

  Needs, May, Given

  Walter Hilton (1957). “The Ladder of Perfection”

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