"Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change."

-- John Podhoretz

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“Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.”
“Donâ€™t start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second.”
“The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”

Source : Thom Hartmann (1997). “The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life”
“Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.”
“Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.”
“I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.”
“It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.”
“When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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