"In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability."

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Source : John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

Spiro T. Agnew

#Drama Quotes #Ongoing Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.”
“I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The rainforest is being cut down at alarming rates, and orangutans are losing their habitats and are being killed, as a result, faster than we can save them, but there is a solution. In Borneo, small parcels of rainforest land can be a lifeline for orangutans so long as they link together protected forests, enabling animals to move safely over greater distances.”

Source : "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.”

Source : John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.7
“If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.”
“The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.”
“I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.”
“The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.”

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