"I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance."

-- Wendy Cope

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“Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”
“Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about inter-class dramas unfolding in the household. But something less parochial might be harder to come by. This is relevant because stories about the divisiveness of class are by definition stories that straddle class boundaries. A story about a miner in a mining town is not obviously one that speaks to the divisiveness of class. In other words, class doesn't just divide us in the world but it also divides us in the stories we're presented.”
“I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.”
“The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.339, Broadview Press
“You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.”

Source : "Kamen: we need more geeks now" by Michaelle Delio, www.wired.com. March 25, 2002.
“Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down.”
“It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.”
“Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.”

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