"'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity."

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Source : Twitter post from Sep 25, 2016

James Taranto

#Objectivity Quotes #Facts Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.â€¦And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.”
“Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.”
“When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women... When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.”
“Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in too much of a rush--and she might spill something, or do it wrong. But whenever possible she needs to learn, error by error, lesson by lesson, to do better. And the more she is able to learn by herself the more she gets the message that she's a kid who can.”
“The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.”
“I tend to have a lot of guy friends.”
“To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.”
“We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way thatâ€™s better.”

Source : John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.213, Open Road Media

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