"The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise."

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Source : Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

Claud Cockburn

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“Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or haveâ€”but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.”
“Think it over, think it under.”
“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.57, Penguin
“What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable of doing these things and women are capable of doing these things and Aboriginal women are capable of doing these things.”
“Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic”
“We didnâ€™t come to earth to get anything. We came to awaken our full potential and infuse this dimension with divine light.”
“The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.”

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