Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.
With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.
What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.
Happiness real only when shared.
I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.