"Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray."

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“I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.”

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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible.”
“From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”
“People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.”
“You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.”
“I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.”
“We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.”
“One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.”

Source : Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By Harold Stanley (Jim) Ede, 1931.

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