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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#create #good #good intentions #harmless #intentions

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#become #energy #independent #least #need

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#anytime #depend #evolution #future #going

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#group #i #kids #public #public school

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#because #better #care #depends #health

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. ↗

— Mink Stole

#corner #dead #dead end #end #grew

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#any #enterprise #expectations #fails #hardly

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#closer #community #family #friends #i

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#completely #depending #different #down #end