"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."

-- Robert Waterman McChesney

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“We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.”

Source : "Kony 2012: shock, outrage and a hint of scepticism as UK pupils react to film" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.
“We all have to meet our match sometime or other.”

Source : Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
“Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.”
“Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.”
“There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.”
“It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.”
“Bartending was definitely crazy and fun, because you got to meet so many different people. Unlike people I worked with, I did not date a lot of men that I met while I was working - it's just not what you do.”
“The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?”

Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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