“Of course, he did. Because people now think she’s Trixie Belden.” At the blank looks from the men in the room, she mockingly translated, “A more mature version of Nancy Drew.”
― Rogue Justice
― Rogue Justice
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
“Fruit is not my thing,” Kate said. “Watch me eat an In-N-Out burger sometime.”
― The Job
― The Job
“In white America, prisons are good places where bad men pay for their crimes. In black America, they are too often used as warehouses to keep minorities off the streets.”
― The Guardians
― The Guardians
“The name UNIX began as a pun: because early versions of the operating system supported only one user—Ken Thompson—Peter Neumann, a security researcher at Stanford Research International, joked that it was an “emasculated Multics,” or “UNICS.” The spelling was eventually changed to UNIX.”
― Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
― Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
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