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		basilgohar on Jan 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Karma': A hack used by the UAE to break into iPho... >"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." – John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election for Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.) as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Philpot_Curran#Quotations

794CD01 on Jan 31, 2019 [–]

Anyone can find a quote that says anything.

>"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever." - George Orwell: 1984, 1949.

Welp, guess that's it for freedom. A person from the past wrote something. No more for us to do here.

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