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"Prescient warning from Ressa in 2022: "I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies' greed for growth and revenues" (p. 137)." — Feb 16, 2025 05:36AM
"Prescient warning from Ressa in 2022: "I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies' greed for growth and revenues" (p. 137)." — Feb 16, 2025 05:36AM
“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging.”
― Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
― Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
“Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.”
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
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“Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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