"Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy."

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Source : Interview with Stefan Sirucek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2010.

Howard Zinn

#Mean Quotes #Media Quotes #People Quotes

“Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.”
“God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.69, Multnomah
“But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22”
“Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
“Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.”
“Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.”

Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.
“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?”

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