"I'm pretty sure Africa was made up by the media to scare people. I mean, I've never seen it. Have you? I didn't think so."

-- Zach Braff

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'”

Source : Chris Hayes (2012). “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy”, p.57, Crown
“Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.”
“I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.”
“Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.”
“Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the "truths" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.”
“I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.”
“I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.”
“It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.”

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