"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

Bukowski, Charles on reform
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"The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance."

Charles, Prince Of Wales on medicine   

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."

Idle, Eric on words
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"A word after a word after a word is power."

Atwood, Margaret on power
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word."

Unknown, Source on words   

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."

Dick, Philip K. on words
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"Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies."

Ibsen, Henrik on ideals and idealism   

"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre on truth
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"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Liddon, Henry Parry on discipline
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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

Mencken, H. L. on age and aging   

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

Greer, Germaine on security
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"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release."

Greer, Germaine on insecurity   

"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."

Mencken, H. L. on safety   

"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

Mencken, H. L. on abuse
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on immortality
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"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy."

Paglia, Camille on academia   

"The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it."

Daney, Serge on interviews
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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent."

Vidal, Gore on media
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"I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. [On Media's Participation In Watergate]"

Buchanan, Patrick on media   

"The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters -- there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void. That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window."

Baudrillard, Jean on media   

"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition."

Clark, Richard on facts   

"The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness."

Berger, John on media   

"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."

Chandler, Raymond on advertising
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"Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive."

Chandler, Raymond on editing and editors   

"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."

Ovid on sorrow
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"When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

Baldwin, James on books - reading
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."

Barrie, Sir James M. on books - reading
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

Baldwin, James on identity
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"Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply."

Baldwin, James on human rights   

"We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it."

Baldwin, James on gender   

"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."

Baldwin, James on failure
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"Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it."

Baldwin, James on experience   

"Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair."

Baldwin, James on experience