"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Events Quotes #News Quotes #Commodity Quotes

“Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”

Source : Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”
“A single tree doesn't make a forest.”

Source : Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.144, Penguin UK
“We also have a team that works really well together, that knows whose turn it is to pick up what someone else can't continue-the five of us work really well together and if someone says, "My plate is too full, I can't handle this," then someone else will always grab onto it.”
“I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.”
“In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”
“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...”
“We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.”
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

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