"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...."

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Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

Noam Chomsky

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“I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.”
“Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 06, 2011
“The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.”
“I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.”
“There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.”
“I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.”
“I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.”

Source : "A Conversation With Dee Wallace". Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.
“I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.”

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