"But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A"

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Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

Mark Krikorian

#Religious Quotes #Views Quotes #Opinion Leaders Quotes

“I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.”
“I don't like writing with real people in mind.”

Source : "Laura Wade: the girl in the Tories' soup" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.
“Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?”
“One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.”
“I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.”
“Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...”
“You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.”
“It may be in the cultural particularities of people â€” in their oddities â€” that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.43, Basic Books

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