"It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda."

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Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

Bassem Youssef

#Depressing Quotes #People Quotes #Style Quotes

“One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.”
“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii
“Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.”
“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
“I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!”
“Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it. The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.”
“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”

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