"I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking."

--

Source : "The Power of the Media, Part I". "The Open Mind", archive.org. 1990.

Fred W. Friendly

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Agony Quotes

“It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.”
“Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris”
“It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.
“I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.”
“It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.”
“I have no formal culinary training, right.”
“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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