"The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth."

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Source : Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian (2013). “Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians”, p.18, Nation Books

Chris Hedges

#Passion Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes #Authority Quotes

“The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapseâ€”one that might be big enough to cause a recession in the U.S. economyâ€”while not fully allayed have diminished. Moreover, while the future for housing activity remains uncertain, I think there is a reasonable chance that housing is in the process of stabilizing, which would mean that it would put a considerably smaller drag on the economy going forward.”
“All exercises that you do with your own bodyweight are great.”
“The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich”
“I said, 'If the quarterback is a runner, it'll work.' But if your quarterback's not a runner, in my judgment and in the judgment of most of the people, it wouldn't work without the quarterback running the ball.”
“It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.”
“I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.”
“... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”
“He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.”

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