"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."

-- Mitchell Baker

#People Quotes #Floating Quotes

“I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.”
“In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.59, BoD – Books on Demand
“There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.”

Source : "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org.
“Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers.”

Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”
“I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.”
“A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.”
“I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.156
“Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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