#leak

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#bleak #house #huge #just #most

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong! ↗

— W. Mark Felt

#anything #haven #i #leaked #wrong

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else! ↗

— W. Mark Felt

#bernstein #else #i #information #leaked

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#because #bleak #commercially #dramas #get

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#family

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#philosophy #political-science #wikileaks #change

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#audience #bleak #ending #job #knows