Access Quotes

• Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Government, Society, Essentials

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• When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Faithful

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• Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed—and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

  Sherry Turkle

  Being Alone, Expectations, Feelings

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.154, Basic Books

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• Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, God, Prayer

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.136, Harmony

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• Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Beautiful, Angel, Effort

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• I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Buddhist, People

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• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

  Jimmy Wales

  Business, Internet Access, World

  "Wikipedia At 15: The Struggle To Attract Non-Techy Geeks". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 15, 2016.

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• The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, America, Credit

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• Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Children, Long, Support

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  Oliver Stone

  Iran, Cameras, India

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• Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Grandmother

  Kerry Washington's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

  Twyla Tharp

  People, Inspired, Academic

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• I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

  Tom Stoppard

  People, Kind, Reporters

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• In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  Rowan Williams

  Simple, Ideas, Anxiety

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.244, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Different, News, Entitlement

  "The future of newspapers, the end of journalism". Malcolm Turnbull's Speech to the Advanced Centre of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, www.abc.net.au. December 8, 2011.

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• Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

  Peter Singer

  Library, Connections, Needs

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

  Scott Turow

  Guarantees That, Democracy, Pillars

  "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, People, Littles

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• Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Home, Ignorance, Novelists

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

  Edward Snowden

  Phones, Cells, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

  David Suzuki

  People, Water, Adequate

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• The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

  Tom Vilsack

  Children, Insecurity, Nutrition

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  J. C. Watts

  Past, Two, America

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