"Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country."

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Source : Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

Oswald Spengler

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“Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.”
“I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.”
“Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.”

Source : "Anna Torv: The season finale left me speechless". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 15, 2011 |.
“Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting.”
“I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.”

Source : Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”
“Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.”
“We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same ***** time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.”

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