"Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing."

-- Edward Said

#Vegetables Quotes #Gone Quotes #Information Quotes

“Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.”

Source : "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.
“Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.”
“I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.”

Source : "Burger Queen". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.
“I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.”
“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”
“Even when there is no law, there is conscience.”
“The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.”
“When I'm aggressive and physically feel pretty good, I'm hard to stop.”

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