"When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'"

-- Brian Eno

#Government Quotes #Talking Quotes #Dubious Quotes

“If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
“Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.”
“I think Iâ€™ve had a crush on any guy thatâ€™s ever said anything nice to me”
“We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.”
“I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.”
“Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.”

Source : Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books
“We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.”

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