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"Very good. Compelling real life case histories." Mar 07, 2019 11:39AM

 
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"So interesting. Taking a long time to read because the story spawns for me a lot of daydreams of what it would be like to live in Iran." Mar 07, 2019 11:34AM

 
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Mary Beard
“Caesar quoted in Greek two words from the Athenian comic playwright Menander: literally, in a phrase borrowed from gambling, ‘Let the dice be thrown.’ Despite the usual English translation – ‘The die is cast’, which again appears to hint at the irrevocable step being taken – Caesar’s Greek was much more an expression of uncertainty, a sense that everything now was in the lap of the gods. Let’s throw the dice in the air and see where they will fall! Who knows what will happen next?”
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Neal Stephenson
“Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

Rahm Emanuel
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
Rahm Emanuel

Peter Pomerantsev
“There is a spate of prime-time documentaries about "psychological weapons." One is The Call of the Void. It features secret service men who inform the audience about the psychic weapons they have developed. The Russian military has "sleepers," psychics who can go into a trance and enter the world's collective uncounscious, its deeper soul, and from thence penetrate the minds of foreign statesmen to uncover their nefarious designs. One has entered the mind of the US president and then reconfigured the intentions of one of his advisers so that whatever hideous plan the US had hatched has failed to come off. The message is clear: if the secret services can see into the US president's mind, they could definitely see into yours; the state is everywhere, watching your every thought.”
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

John Wayne
“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady -- but it is a hard job to get her to read. Television’s just too easy.”
John Wayne

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