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“So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency and the FBI that encryption would soon be incorporated into lots of communications devices, and that that would cause wiretaps to go dark. There was not that much commercial use of encryption at that point. Encryption, particularly for communications traffic, was mostly something done by the government.”

Firsts War Done Use Government Causes Dark Security Communication Concern Agency Devices Traffic National Security Fbi Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.”

Firsts Lines Views Doubt News Concern Organization Bottom Point Of View Managers Journalist No Doubt Owners Bottom Line Allegiance

Author:Bill Kovach

“It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.”

People Needs Firsts Matter Beautiful Asks Growing Flower Concern Who You Are Plant Funny Things Beautiful People

Author:Maxine Powell

“There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.”

Firsts Care Next Sides Interest Design Concern Instruments Notes Musical Productions Rhythm Programming Consistent Rough Hierarchy Fascination Mixing

Author:Squarepusher

“When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.”

Men Firsts Different Cities Activity Highest Concern Tasks Missions Founders Egyptian Shrines Scribes

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.”

Firsts Ideas Events Concern Regard Contemplation

Book:The Natural History of Religion: Revision of Great Book

Source: The Natural History of Religion: Revision of Great Book

“I write first drafts feverishly fast, and then I spend years editing. It's not that sentence-by-sentence perfectionist technique some writers I admire use. I need to see the thing, in some form, and then work with it over and over and over until it makes sense to me - until its concerns approach me, until its themes come to my attention. At that editing stage, the story picks itself and it's just up to me to see it, to find it. If I've done a good job, what it all means will force me to confront it in further edits.”

“When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems.”

Firsts Littles States Problem Past Nations Saws Concern Tradition Decided Accounts India Consumers Indian Enterprise Irrelevant Modernity Antiquity Preoccupation Free Enterprise

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.”

People Men Firsts Facts Earth Used White Written Feet Mankind Behavior Consequence Concern Function Environmental Extremes Contact Boat Indian White Man Elders First Contact

Author:Leonard Peltier

“It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.”

Years Firsts Made Watches Late Concern Okay Killing Bars Made It Neighborhood Warning Bullets Strokes Shady

Author:Questlove

“I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain cases and many have criticized its recent lack of deference to decisions made by state legislatures and Congress.”

Firsts Made States Certain Decision Cases Concern Court Democratic Raised Congress Clarity Legislature Decisions Made Deference State Legislatures

Author:Mike DeWine

“It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within us. Thus it becomes, for those who willingly embrace it, a door leading to the love of God? Thus humility should be the first concern of those who are fighting against the presumption of the devil, for as we advance it will be a sure guide to all the paths of virtue.”

Should Firsts Wells Christian Fighting Known Virtue Path Doors Humility Devil Concern Embrace Guides Chiefs Obedience God Love Orthodox Well Known Orthodox Christian Presumption

Author:Diadochos of Photiki

“So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.”

Firsts Looks Interest Amount Concern Institutions Profit Advertising Look Up Dependent Fund Google Advertisers

Author:Noam Chomsky

“First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.”

People Firsts Looks Doe Together Nations President Concern Appointments

Author:Al Sharpton

“My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Firsts Different Problem Black Realizing Poor Race Rich Concern Concerned Bigger Financial Black People Mississippi Disparity Different Races

Author:David Banner

“In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing now is the right thing, your main concern should be taking care of yourself, and not doing action at your age." Well, after first feeling angry, I'd think, to be honest, I really am older. So I thought, all right, but before I retire I'd like to make one last major action film, one good one.”

“Remember the first debate between [Mitt] Romney and [Barack] Obama? Let's revisit it for a second. It's interesting to note the way the Drive-Bys played it. The first Romney-Obama debate, there was real concern after that debate that Obama didn't show up.”

Way Firsts Real Shows Remember Interesting Concern Notes Debate Barack Romney

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification.”

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.”

Firsts Problem Bits Community Secret Magic Concern Garden Seasons Prize Episodes Realism Blanket Forts Secret Garden Trampolines

Author:Rob Sheffield

“My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?”

People Way Firsts Facts Waiting Loses Economy Nice Normal Concern Sight Complaining Remove Knives Stabbing

Author:Simon Sinek

“Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.”

People Knows Firsts Made Important Country Care Certain Behinds Concern Immigration Secure Borders Addresses Illegal Illegal Immigration

Author:Michael Steele

“White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.”

People Way Firsts Body Order Culture Black White Concern Ugly Intellect Best Way Ideology Civilized Convincing Degradation Warrants Instill

Book:Race Matters

Source: Race Matters

“I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second... or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.”

Firsts Wells I Can Humor Funny Remember Night Order Concern Yesterday Fifth One Night One Night Stand

Book:My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.”

Source: Legends of the Fall

“There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.” Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.”

Thinking Needs Giving Firsts Heart Two Running Asks Wealth Attention Concern Jealous Goddess Backwards Chasing Chasing Money

Author:Christopher McDougall

“Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.”

Firsts Ideas Play Democracy Pieces Concern Complexes Arguing Protected Grounded Taboo Fallacy Free Play

Author:H. L. Mencken

“And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”

Firsts Lying Three Black Destiny Built Concern Concerned Thirds Profound Conviction Cousin

Book:Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress

Source: Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress

“From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears for the future of the race. He had to respond to it, couldn't bear the pressure. Riding the wave, he found himself saying in a rush, "We live and die for our kind. The species is our first and only concern. We fight every night and count the jars of thelessers we kill. Stealth is the way we protect the civilians. The less they know about us, the safer they are. That is why we disappeared.”

Knows Way Firsts Kind Night Dies Fighting Found Felt Race Bears Protect Concern Pressure Guilt Species Wave Overwhelming Riding Tides Every Night Civilians Jars Stealth Riding The Wave

Author:J.R. Ward

“Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.”

Mind Firsts Spirit Lying Reading Attention Lord Destiny Clear Holy Concern Difficulty Scripture Gods Will Holy Spirit Internals Transformed Your Destiny

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Don't go alone," Lend said, his voice tight with concern. "I'll take Jack." "Oh, wonderful, take the other psychotic guy in your life to go find the first one.”

Firsts Said Guy Voice Wonderful Concern Psychotic

Author:Kiersten White

“A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.”

Men Giving Firsts Lasts Time Attention Concern Seasons Affair Application Leisure Unnecessary Disposition Bustle Affording

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”

Firsts Eye Culture Concern Globalization

Author:Ulrich Beck

“When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.”

“Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth”

“Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.”

“Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.”

Men Life Firsts Age Today Science Death Asks First Time Concern After Death Life Death Life After Death Before Death

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.”

Firsts Ends Moving Next Difficult President Steps Figures Policy Concern Election Prepared Average Iraq Voters Foreign Policy Be Prepared Involvement Hesitation Fixing

Author:Joe Biden

“I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common fire-arms. I did not suppose any part of the United States so destitute of what is considered as among the first necessaries of a farm-house.”

Should Firsts Important States House Interesting United Common United States Fire Arms Gun Concern Farms Exposed Portions Gun Control Frontiers Destitute

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as a gift to God, whose chief concern is the welfare of his children. Every gentle deed to our neighbor, every kindness to the poor and suffering, is a gift to the Lord, before whom all mankind are equal. Every conformity to the Lord's plan of salvation-and this is of first importance-is a direct gift to God, for thereby we fit ourselves more nearly for our divinely planned destiny.”

“What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.”

Source: The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables : Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature and Value of the Various Points : Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers and Trainers : Also, on Carriages and Harness

“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.”

Firsts Whole Government Law Certain Objects Members Concern Remembered Republic Provision Jurisdiction Federalism

Book:The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

“I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Moving Concern Come Up Piano Songwriting Songwriters Writing Songs

Author:Lamont Dozier