"When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda."

-- Studs Terkel

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“If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.”
“We have, thank God, a very good relationship with the German government. There were resentments, but they've been resolved. Germany is the strongest player and Angela Merkel is the strongest government leader in the EU.”
“The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's cheap insurance, since failing to do basic research guarantees that the next major advance will be oened by someone else.”
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.55, Anchor
“A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.”
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

Source : William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.”

Source : "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone Interview, October 23, 2002.
“Melancholy suicide. â€”This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;”

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