"There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined, depleted, drained, overworked, over-loved, its plants and animals becoming endangered and exterminated faster than we can renew them. Our country is silent, so we must speak and act to save it."

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Source : Di Morrissey (2011). “The Silent Country”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

Di Morrissey

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“The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately the only party that can pay the debt is the government, because it runs the printing presses. So the debts ultimately either are paid by the government, or they're paid by a huge transfer of property from debtors to creditors - or, the debts are written off.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.”

Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1935). “After all”
“Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.”
“Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.”
“Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.”

Source : Marina Warner (1987). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, Picador
“When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manualâ€”even a one-word manualâ€”then it is a failure, poorly designed.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull", 2002.
“People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.”

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