- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your Quotes
On staying in control of what's truly your own.
These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve.
- Entrust
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine!
- Chair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
- Sweet
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which is just one reason no one has ever ordered one at a swim-up bar at a resort pool.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he's a member of your ethnic group.
- Nov 07, 2020
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020