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Emil
https://www.goodreads.com/brainiacbear
“People try to understand me and what I do. I don’t want to be understood. Don’t put me in a box until I’m dead.”
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“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
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“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Ultimately, it was Super Mario Bros. that taught me what remains perhaps the most important lesson of my life. ... There is no turning back, only going forward — for Mario and Luigi, for me, and for you. Life only scrolls in one direction, which is the direction of time, and no matter how far we might manage to go, that invisible wall will always be just behind us, cutting us off from the past, compelling us on into the unknown.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe into that domain of personal or individual freedoms that during the American Revolution was called “liberty” and during the Internet Revolution is called “privacy.”
― Permanent Record
― Permanent Record
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