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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2013-06-11

"Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre." -- attriubuted to Cardinal Richelieu (b. 1585-09-09, d. 1642-12-04) nearly every place I've seen it, but Wikiquote notes that the attribution is disputed.

Translation: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

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posted by [personal profile] dptwisted at 10:30pm on 2013-06-13
You'll never get the fearful to believe it. There's been studies that show that people fear the unlikely exotic risks far more than the likely but mundane risks. People will give up a lot to feel safe, and our untrustworthy leaders know this full well.

I work in statistical modeling, so I know exactly why we need to fear the NSA.
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