"Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person."

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Source : Jean Kilbourne (1999). “Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising”

Jean Kilbourne

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“Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough.”
“It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.”

Source : Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.”

Source : Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“Those dreams I have at night are going to drive me crazy. Last night I dreamed that little red-haired girl and I were eating lunch together... But she's gone... She's moved away, and I don't know where she lives, and she doesn't know I even exist, and I'll never see her again... And... I wish men cried...”
“Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.”
“The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.”
“I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.”

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