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“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
― The World at Night
― The World at Night
“People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.”
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)”
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“There's a French saying, ‘Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.’ Let's see, ‘Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower'...”
― The Spies of Warsaw
― The Spies of Warsaw
“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.”
― A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
― A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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