"No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization."

-- Robert Brustein

#Perception Quotes #Ongoing Quotes #Enlightened Quotes

“But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.”
“Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.”
“It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.”
“For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”

Source : "The Twilight Zone (The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. March 4, 1960.
“Money itself isnâ€™t lost or made.Â Itâ€™s simply transferred from one perception to another.”
“Phoenix is great. I love Phoenix, .. I love Scottsdale. I love the James Hotel. I have a Kathy Griffin suite. I love -what's that place called? AZ 88. I had never had a cheese crisp, so I went to - oh, can't remember. We went to the State Fair, where I was all about the deep-fried Twinkie. I ate every deep-fried thing - oh, it was heavenly. I ate until I got sick.”
“Of my death, tell them i have done my duty”
“I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business.”

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