"The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

-- Carl Sagan

#Ignorance Quotes #Media Quotes #Sound Quotes

“The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.”
“I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.”
“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.”

Source : Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office
“It's so great to work with people you know and love and trust, but also open up the world.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.”
“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”
“So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer [â€¦] That forward-looking element is â€¦ inseparable from the judgment of beauty.”
“Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.”

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