Nicholas Allen Jones (Nicky Wire) Quotes
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
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Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.
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We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.
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We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
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Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
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Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
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People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
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Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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It's a lot of years. Not many guys get the opportunity to play their whole career with one organization, and I'm very happy.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker.
