"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know."

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Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.78, Soft Skull Press

Noam Chomsky

#Population Quotes

“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.”
“The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]”
“Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...”
“George Smith shows how many of the prophetâ€™s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice â€¦ [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.”
“You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.”
“The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“I never met a word I didn't love”

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