"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society."

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Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

Edward Bernays

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“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”
“There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.”
“Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life.”
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
“[H]e who fears to lose will never win.”

Source : David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.131, Hachette UK
“Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.101, Macmillan
“If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.”
“Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.”

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