"I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#Book Quotes #Struggle Quotes #School Quotes

“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”

Source : "Web 2.0lier than thou" by Nicholas G. Carr, www.roughtype.com. October 23, 2006.
“I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that ***** in the stands.”
“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?”
“The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .”
“The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.”
“So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.”
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
“We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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