"If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage."

-- Katharine Graham

#Political Quotes #Facts Quotes #Surveillance Quotes

“Ignorance is the mother of presumption”
“If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.”
“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”
“Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.”

Source : "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.
“For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...”
“It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.”
“Blogs are for anoraks who couldnâ€™t get published any other way.”

Source : "Editor-At-Large: Blog off... You don't want to know what I weigh today (do you?)" by Janet Street-Porter, www.independent.co.uk. July 23, 2006.
“It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.”

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