"They may be a little more high brow than we are."

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"They may be a little more high brow than we are."

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

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"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation."

David Korten, American Activist

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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

James A. Baldwin, American Novelist

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"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."

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"It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise."

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"Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession."

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"A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything."

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"Most Sunday magazines, with the New York Times as an exception, are kind of sleepy, weekend service vehicles to move living room products."

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"I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public."

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"People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world."

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"There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays."

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