#orr

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered. ↗

— Edward Felten

#comfort #deciding #gathered #higher #inferences

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#american #backwards #bent #culture #effective

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#age #behind #done #left #matter

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#certain #corrupt #distinguish #dogs #guns

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#fatigue #frustration #often #our #resentment

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#accomplish #admire #instead #people #people say

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door. ↗

— Tom Felton

#debt #door #eight #had #horrible

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. ↗

— Jay Carney

#already #america #bills #borrow #ceiling

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always