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“In “securing” people, make them really really afraid. Create all kinds of colors and alerts that terrorize the population. Terror and numbness will eventually be mistaken for security. In “securing” people, take away their opinions and voices and instincts. Make them feel afraid to speak out. Control will eventually be mistaken for security. In “securing” people, distract them through addictive consumption and mindless entertainment programming. Amnesia will eventually be mistaken for security.”
― Eve Ensler, Insecure at Last: Losing it in Our Security-Obsessed World

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

“All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure