"As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved."

-- Marshall McLuhan

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“When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.”
“It was involuntary. They sank my boat.”
“Vladimir Putin is doubtlessly trying to drive a wedge into the Western alliance. When it comes to the Russian minorities in the Baltics, Putin will surely know that his chances there are slim to none. They are quite comfortable in those countries. But at the moment, there are at least three EU member-states where it is questionable whether they still belong among Western democracies: Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction.”
“Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.”

Source : "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.
“At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.”

Source : William Moses Kunstler (2004). “The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority”, Ocean Press (AU)
“But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”
“This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.”

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