"The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke."

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Source : "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

David Simon

#Games Quotes #Feet Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.”

Source : "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.
“If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.”
“And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with Hound. Hound was on his back, trying to wiggle out of the black towel Batty had tied around his neck. Batty was leaping over Hound's water bowl, shrieking, 'Blood, blood!' 'She looks all right,' he said.”

Source : Jeanne Birdsall (2014). “The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwick at Point Mouette”, p.166, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.”
“Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker”
“The world chooses to think what the world thinks.”
“I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.”
“Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.”

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