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Ich habe bestimmte Regeln, nach denen ich lebe. Meine erste Regel: Ich glaube nichts, was mir die Regierung sagt. - George Carlin

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Man is not only a social being. Somewhere away from the crowd and the noise, he has to come to grips with himself, God and nature. In order to grow, he needs reserve and isolation and silence. In addition to his mechanical devices and machines, he needs to get back to nature, to camp out-of-doors by himself. Somewhere along the line, he has to be the maker of some of his own tools, as a shoemaker or a healer or a teacher.

The Rape of the Mind

Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo

Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

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