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Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

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• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

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• I'm not a control freak.

  

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• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

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• In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

  

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• Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

  

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

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• The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.

  

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• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

  

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• Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

  

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• I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.

  

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• I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

  

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• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

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• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

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• Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

  

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• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

  

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• If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.

  

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• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

  

  Bram Cohen
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