"Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash."

-- Pope Francis

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“Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.”
“A lot of actors flame out.”
“How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.”
“My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?”
“Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.”
“Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”

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