"Competition for status is a zero sum game"

-- Richard Layard, Baron Layard

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“No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichÃ©s and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.”

Source : "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.
“I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.”
“The people of Jesus' day thought holy men were unapproachable. But Jesus' work was in the marketplace. He made people feel welcome, and that they had a place. His life was a constant demonstration that there were only two things that really mattered in this life-God and people. They were the only things that lasted forever.”
“We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.”
“There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.”
“Part of being human is that we canâ€™t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again weâ€™ll do it the right way.”
“I like peace and solitude and silence.”
“I am very active on Instagram and love connecting with people there.”

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