"There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.”
“Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.”
“Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”
“There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.”
“And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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