Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
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Criss Jami
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.
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Vera Nazarian
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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Bruce Sterling
Why were you lurking under our window?"" Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"" Listening to the news, " said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage." Listening to the news! Again?""Well,...
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J.k. Rowling
You totally need to watch the news."" Can't."" Why?"" It's too depressing."" Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.
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Darynda Jones
More Quotes By James Reston
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
