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Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.


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That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL To stand on the
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"I ought to say," explained Pooh ...
A.A. MILNE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER 'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN Opportunity comes to everyone it depends on you whether you take it or leave it. Learn to take risks...
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JENNIFER BROWN Knowledge is like the sky - limitless. It depends on you whether you want to learn how to acquire wi...
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KENNETH DARRYL BROWN Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most pro...
ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS Is it my birthday again? Already? Where does the time go?"
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JOHN TYLER So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship wil...
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THEO JAMES The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of whic...
JAMES BLACK 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ...
JAMES WOLCOTT To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ...
JAMES HORNER I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON