QUOTE A DAY - March 13, 2014

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Because authoritarian structures incorporate the same mistaken notions of certainty and the same mistaken assumptions about method, as does the traditional view of science, the arguments underlying Popper's criticism of the view that in politics we even can... establish and preserve a certain state of society are in point after point the same as those underlying his criticism of the view that science.
--Bryan Magee, 'Popper'.

[T]he controlling factor, the root cause, of risk is dependence, particularly dependence on the expectation of stable system state. Yet the more technologic the society becomes, the greater the dynamic range of possible failures.
--Dan Geer Computer Security Analyst and Risk Management Specialist

[E]very time an existing service disappears into the cloud, our vulnerability to its absence increases as does the probability of monopoly power. Every time we ask the government to provide goodnesses that can only be done with more data, we are asking government to collect more data.
--Dan Geer Computer Security Analyst and Risk Management Specialist


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Whenever we fail to care for creation and for our brothers and sisters, the way is opened to destruction and hearts are hardened.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
--James Madison, "Federalist No. 45"

Modern Zionism, which still reflects the colonial outlook of nineteenth-century imperial Europe, is the guiding ideology of Israel, and it proclaims that the country must be a Jewish State.
--Lawrence Davidson, Professor of History

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
--William Arthur Ward


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Whenever we fail to care for creation and for our brothers
and sisters, the way is opened to destruction and hearts
are hardened.

ANSWER: Jean-Rodolfe von Salis

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