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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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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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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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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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
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With sociology one can do anything and call it work.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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A jumped-up little twerp and a prime candidate for exorcism
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When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.
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It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.
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If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
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I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.
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I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!
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Values are goals which behavior strives to realize. Any activity that is oriented towards an end is a value-oriented action. To the ancient Greeks, their culture was guided by an attainment of ‘the good life.’ In the early days of Christianity, the ‘good life’ was shifted from this lifetime into the next. Newtonian science and the modern era brought values under rational scrutiny, and a desire for empirical order. Modern capitalism introduced the value of ‘good’ as more production per capita, and ‘better’ as even more production. There is nothing in the sphere of culture which would exempt us from the realm of values—no facts floating around, ready to be grasped without valuations and expectations.
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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.
