#ned

The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does. ↗

— Bernard Beckett

#you-ve-been-warned #media

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #inner #light #lights #literature

Lo qué uno quiere de verdad, es lo que está hecho para uno; entonces hay que tomarlo, o intentar: En eso se te puede ir la Vida, pero es una vida mucho mejor… ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#mario-benedetti #vida #vida

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. ↗

— Aaliyah

#audience #began #forget #fun #get

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#continue #felt #i #loyalty #might

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#emphasized #game #how #jordan #learned

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#been #blame #crisis #effort #get

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#common #entirely #exploited #good #ideas

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi. ↗

— John Abizaid

#concerned #extremists #far #just #network

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#case #got #government #how #i