"For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking."

-- Neil Postman

#Brave New World Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.”
“The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.”
“Education is the number one priority.”

Source : "Vincent Kartheiser Talks MAD MEN, Why People Prefer Don Over Pete, Gender Roles in the 60s, Jon Hamm’s Directing Skills, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2013.
“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“With the press there is no "off the record.”
“Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.”
“I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable.”
“For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Apr 01, 2017

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