"Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda."

-- Edwin Way Teale

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“The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?”
“You have the greatest chance of being happy when the voice you respond to is your own voice.”
“An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.”
“I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm not a young jitterbug anymore. When I was a young jitterbug, I never won. I didn't start winning until I got older. The older I get, the wiser I get. You just have to play it smart.”
“Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut?”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1986). “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards”, p.69, Penguin

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