"Language is butchered by the media"

-- Don Watson

#Media Quotes #Language Quotes

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
“Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.”
“If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.”
“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

Source : "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.
“I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The border between music and noise is always culturally definedâ€”which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be”
“If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.”
“Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune”

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