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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

Topics: Adult Adult Life Almost Almost All Been Being Life Like Spotlight Spy

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Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: American Asked Bathtub Been Falling Falls Fear More Most Officers Our Police Police Officers Rights Sacred Sacrifice Terrorism Than Victim

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For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Able Accomplished Because Been Chance Change Determine Everything Give Had Itself Journalists Me Mission Personal Personal Satisfaction Remember Satisfaction Should Society Soon Terms Trying Want Wanted Were Won Work

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It's been vindicating to see the reaction from lawmakers, judges, public bodies around the world, civil liberties activists who have said it's true that we have a right to at least know the broad outlines of what our government's doing in our name and what it's doing against us.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Activists Against Around Been Bodies Broad Civil Civil Liberties Doing Government Judges Know Lawmakers Least Liberties Name Our Outlines Public Reaction Right Said See True Us Who World

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I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Act Been Expression Made Political

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Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Any Any Other Way Been Control Detachment Forces Had How Interests Me No Control Other Over People Product Seeing Way Were

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

~Edward Steichen

Topics: Been Carry Earth Had He Here Himself Magnificent Man Only Optimism Optimist Our Since Survived Things Through Us

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My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

~Edward Teller

Topics: Been Cause Desperate End Experience Fight Good In The End Reasons Short Win Years You

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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Appear Been Body Energy Human Human Nature Intelligent Intelligent Man Interest Little Man Mind Much Must Nature Often Scientific Spent Strange Study World

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I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

~Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Topics: Accused Action Anything Been Being Believe Death Eventually Guess Many Most Much Not Talking Productive Pull Stops Talk Talking Things Time Times Too Too Much Trigger Very You

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