"The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want."

-- Richard Schickel

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“One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.”
“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“Ladies, use a loving voice, use a respectful voice, use a godly voice, but don't lose your voice.”
“I do not want the voice of the people shut out.”

Source : Remarks in the Senate, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 75, p. 10297, May 16, 1932.
“The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.”
“Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.”

Source : "The old Bailey" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2002.
“I believe that I can improve things.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.”

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