Matt Taibbi Quotes
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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There's much unlocked potential in Philips.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
