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“Congress is a federation of fiefdoms, subject to the vicissitudes of constant fundraising and the lobbying of those who have donated the funds.”
― Richard A. Clarke , Robert K. Knake

tags: cyber-crime, infosec, national-security

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“What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists, and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing their rights and wrongs?”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

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“There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
― Manny Rayner

tags: irony, sociology

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“The operational damage from an event can linger in the mind like a ghost.
Freedom could take you farther from what you sought, not closer.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

tags: fiction-fantasy, science-fiction-thrillers

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“NICUs are like the bowels of the technological underworld. They are places where infants are literally held captive for weeks and months and subjected to all manner of painful and torturous medical procedures, most of the time without being given any form of pain relief whatsoever.”
― Jeanice Barcelo, Birth Trauma and the Dark Side of Modern Medicine: Exposting Systematic Violence During Hospital Birth and the Hijacking of Human Love

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