"...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups."

-- Eduardo Galeano

#Media Quotes #Hands Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.”
“Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225”
“Nate Silver says this is a 73.6 percent chance that the president is going to win? Nobody in that campaign thinks they have a 73 percent chance â€” they think they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning. And you talk to the Romney people, itâ€™s the same thing. And anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a tossup right now is such an ideologue, they should be kept away from typewriters, computers, laptops and microphones for the next 10 days, because they're jokes.”
“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.”
“I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.”
“People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.”
“I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.”
“Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.”

Source : 1994 InTheTimes, 9 Feb.

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