"Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products."

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Source : "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War". Book by Max Brooks, 2007.

Max Brooks

#People Quotes #Tvs Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres.]”
“We are what we frequently do.”
“Weirdly also listening to a lot of Aphex Twin again, I loved Syro.”
“You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhoodâ€¦." I began,”

Source : Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK
“I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.”
“Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?”
“Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.”

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