"Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity."

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Source : "Mourn, and take action on guns" by Ethan Zuckerman, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2012.

Ethan Zuckerman

#Gun Quotes #Media Quotes #May Quotes

“We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.”
“If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences”
“Life is never quite like the brochure.”
“The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.40, Transaction Publishers
“I just keep thinking about putting up good numbers, playing hard and winning games.”
“I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.”
“Identify the problem.â€) I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: â€œGive up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.”
“Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.”

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