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“As the years go by, it has become increasingly apparent to me that legislatively reforming the surveillance regime of the country of my birth won't necessarily help a journalist or dissident in the country of my exile, but an encrypted smartphone miht.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

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“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk. If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

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“One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.”
― Anthony H. Cordesman, The Lessons Of Modern War Volume IV: The Gulf War

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“Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing).”
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