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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

~Edward Sapir

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You could watch entire villages and see what everyone was doing. I watched NSA tracking people's Internet activities as they typed. I became aware of just how invasive U.S. surveillance capabilities had become. I realized the true breadth of this system. And almost nobody knew it was happening.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Activities Almost Aware Became Become Breadth Capabilities Could Doing Entire Everyone Had Happening How Internet Just Knew Nobody People Realized See Surveillance System Tracking True Villages Watch Watched You Nsa

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The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

~Edward Snowden

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I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

~Edward Snowden

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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Almost Animal Compared Distortion Facts Harmless Life Marvelous Mental Neglect Unconscious Until Unusual

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It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

~Edward Zwick

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We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.

~Edward Zwick

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I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

~Edwin Armstrong

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'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

~Edwin Catmull

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In my boyhood, cattle-raising ran almost neck and neck with grain-raising. In my secluded little valley in the Suisun Hills, the rodeo was the most exhilarating spectacle in the round year.

~Edwin Markham

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