"There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good."

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Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press

Randal Marlin

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“If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.”

Source : "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 3-1 The Church and Church Life), 1980.
“Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.”
“Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense...”
“I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless â€“ and timely.”
“The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.”
“I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.”
“writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.”
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”

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