"Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe."

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Source : "Ask the Author Live: John Seabrook on Crowds". live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2011.

John Seabrook

#Religious Quotes #Lying Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.”
“There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.”

Source : "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.
“Working gets in the way of living.”
“It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.”
“What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!”
“I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.”
“Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me itâ€™s no big deal that Iâ€™m not like Snow. I can be another thing; Iâ€™m meant to be another thing.”
“The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.”

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