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" There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing. "
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Day
Writing
My Life
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" The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression. "
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" George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.' "
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" Generally, people's fear and hesitancy regarding greater computerization comes from a George Orwell/'1984'-based metaphor of a single computer or data base where all your information is stored, knows everything about you, and can use this information at will and for evil purposes. "
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" Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.' "
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" When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here. "
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Abroad
Surprised
" In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate. "
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" I'm an American by accent, and I grew up in the States, living there between the age of three and 24. "
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Age
Living
" In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin. "
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" We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union. "
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European Union
" That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers. "
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" I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young. "
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" Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. "
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" I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.' "
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Reading
Father
New
" Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. "
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" Can the wider West establish a global 'cyber NATO?' It would be difficult, but so, too, was the founding of NATO itself, which was called into being only after successive communist coups in Eastern Europe. "
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" The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run. "
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" If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack. "
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" Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. "
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" Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it. "
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Desire
" In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island. "
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" Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century. "
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Digital
Will
" Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy? "
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" In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer. "
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