"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."

-- Billy Connolly

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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible.”
“I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.”
“Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.”
“We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.”
“â€Ž"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”

Source : Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”
“Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.”
“Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.182, Scholastic Inc.
“I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.”

Source : "They cheat, I tell you". Interview with Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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