"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

-- Noam Chomsky

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“Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.”
“A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a ***** Communist!”
“He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.”
“Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.”

Source : "The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 462, January, 1906.
“Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry.”

Source : "Investing in innovation: creating a research and innovation policy that works". Book by L.M. Branscomb and J.H. Keller, 1999.
“I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.”
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.”

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