"[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68)."

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Neil Postman

#Meaningful Quotes #Giving Quotes #Information Quotes

“Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.”

Source : "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.
“I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.”
“Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.”

Source : Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press
“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20
“We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.”
“In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid. As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.”
“I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.”

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