Jon Postel Quotes
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!
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I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
