"Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play."

-- John Dos Passos

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“Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.”
“There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.”

Source : "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org.
“Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.”
“I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.”
“Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.”

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