Franklin Foer Quotes

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

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• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Law
  • Sports
  • Betting

• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Think
  • Age
  • Reading

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Women
  • Age
  • Discrimination

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Media
  • Social Media

• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Law
  • Color
  • Equity

• It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Age
  • Year
  • German

• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Great
  • Age
  • Soul

• IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Age

• Typography extended its character to the regulation and fixations of languages. (p. 260)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Character

• I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to properly equip me for my culinary apprenticeship.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Parents

• The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Age
  • Law