Joy is not ‘the absence of pain,’ intelligence is not ‘the absence of stupidity,’ light is not ‘the absence of darkness,’ an entity is not ‘the absence of a nonentity.’
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“you could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all.”
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
“Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“Dream is not what you see in sleep. Dream is something which does not let you sleep.”
― India - The Next Superpower: Tame The Dragon, Unleash The Tiger
― India - The Next Superpower: Tame The Dragon, Unleash The Tiger
“But now, without leaving home, from the comfort of your easy chair, you can divorce yourself from the consensus on what constitutes “truth.” Each person can live in a private thought bubble, reading only those websites that reinforce his or her desired beliefs, joining only those online groups that give sustenance when the believer’s courage flags.”
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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