"When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I would be asked to write the review. The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays."

-- Matt Taibbi

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Two Quotes

“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.11, Oxford University Press
“Hey-hey-hey-hey! Smoke weed every day!”
“I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.”

Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.
“It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions.”
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”

Source : "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.
“Not everyone can lead worship.”
“A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.”
“MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.”

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