The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Alain De Botton
Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.
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Demosthenes
Acknowledgements! My thanks to HollywoodWhen you showed me John RamboStitching up his arm with no anaesthetic And giving them “a war they won’t believe” I knew then my calling, the job for me Thanks also to the recruitment adverts For showing me soldiers whizzing around...
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Danny Martin
Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.
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Dennis Perrin
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No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everything to work to become powerful, to keep the curse from having its effects. He creates the arts and the sciences, he raises an army, he...
The propagandist naturally cannot reveal the true intentions of the principal for whom he acts... That would be to submit the projects to public discussion, to the scrutiny of public opinion, and thus to prevent their success... Propaganda must serve instead as a veil for...
