1970s, Speech to UN General Assembly (1974)
“Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.”
Source: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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From Ctheory Interview With Paul Virilio 'The Kosovo War Took Place In Orbital Space: Paul Virilio in Conversation with John Armitage' http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=132
“Oliver… well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”
Source: Carpe Corpus
Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, January 1656 - December 1658, Riebeeck's Journal, H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town 1897, p. 104
Jan van Riebeeck ordered the establishment of a kraal and signaling post on Robben Island. In 1658 Van Riebeeck wrote to the men stationed there.
Address to the UN General Assembly (21 September 2006), quoted in BBC News (22 September 2006) " Hamas rejects Abbas unity pledge http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5370628.stm
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
Book 3 (Sefer Zemanim "Times"), Treatise 8 (Kiddush HaChodesh "Sanctification of the New Moon"), closing words
Mishneh Torah (c. 1180)
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), p. 494