Quotes
Authors
H. L. Mencken

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Patriotic Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.”
“Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.”
“Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.”
“Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.”
“Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.”
“I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.”
“Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.”

Source : Song: Eyes Without A Face, Album: Rebel Yell, 1983
“Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so, with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions.”

Source : "Nintendo isn’t worried about Apple, and you won’t see Mario on Facebook". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. March 2, 2010.

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