"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."

-- Amy Lowell

#Elation Quotes #Stagnation Quotes

“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”

Source : "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower". Book by William Blum, 2000.
“When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov”
“Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.”
“Women want to be chosen.”
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”
“I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.”
“All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk”
“In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.”

Source : Scott Pelley's speech upon receiving the Fred Friendly journalism award at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, May 11, 2013.

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