To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.
Cellular companies don't innovate, they just buy more spectrum.
I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate who was 'enthusiastic' about religion attracted censure and suspicion.
Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
In stabilizing the macroeconomic environment, we have focused on aligning fiscal with monetary policy and nudging the central bank toward the objective of more market-determined exchange rates.
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.
