"Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization."

-- Arthur Koestler

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“When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.”
“I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.”
“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside”
“Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.”
“Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.”
“But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.”
“It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.”
“I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.”

Source : Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.65, WND Books

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