"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."

-- Wilfred Burchett

#Circles Quotes #Ears Quotes #Demand Quotes

“The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in America: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.”
“Dear children, don't eat anything healthy at home, just keep eating those hamburgers”
“If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.”

Source : Swami Rama (2002). “The Essence of Spiritual Life: A Companion Guide for the Seeker”, p.72, Lotus Press
“Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.”

Source : "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.
“[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.”
“The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information.”
“Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.”
“Biography should be written by an acute enemy.”

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