"No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades."

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Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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“I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2011.
“For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.”
“At the end of the day, it's all about how you were raised and your perspective. It's all about if you want to win. If you don't want to win anymore, then you can't win. If you're not in the game, you can't win the game. If you give up, let it be your perspective. I've been taught long ago that I'll never be nothing.”
“It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.”
“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

Source : Cotton Mather (1977). “Magnalia Christi Americana, books I and II”
“The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.”
“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.”

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