“Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

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Malcolm Gladwell70

journalist and science writer 1963

Эдгар Хоу (1853–1937)

“Nothing is more wonderful, or honours virtue more, than the confidence with which we turn to people whose probity we have long been acquainted with.”

Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763) French novelist

Rien n'est plus admirable et ne fait plus d'honneur à la vertu, que la confiance avec laquelle on s'adresse aux personnes dont on connaît parfaitement la probité.
Part 1, p. 86; translation p. 40.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)

“Imagine if your local phone companies tried to edit or censor what you said. Social media companies have far more power.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2020-05-28
Donald Trump just used a ridiculous comparison to justify his social media crackdown
Chris Cillizza
CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/28/politics/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-social-media-executive-order/index.html
2020, May 2020