"This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit."

-- Anne Ursu

#Giving Quotes #World Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
“I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.”
“I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.”
“The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.”
“The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.”
“I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.”
“It didnâ€™t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what donâ€™t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.”
“Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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