QUOTE A DAY - June 30, 2015

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.
--Noam Chomsky

One of the functions that things like professional sports play, in our society and others, is to offer an area to deflect people's attention from things that matter, so that the people in power can do what matters without public interference.
--Noam Chomsky

Everyone who writes and speaks about these [political] matters knows how much you can get away with as long as you keep close to received doctrine. I'm sure just about everyone exploits these privileges. I know I do. When I refer to Nazi crimes or Soviet atrocities, for example, I know that I will not be called upon to back up what I say, but a detailed scholarly apparatus is necessary if I say anything critical about the practice of one of the Holy States: the United States itself, or Israel, since it was enshrined by the intelligentsia after its 1967 victory. This freedom from the requirements of evidence or even rationality is quite a convenience, as any informed reader of the journals of public opinion, or even much of the scholarly literature, will quickly discover. It makes life easy, and permits expression of a good deal of nonsense or ignorant bias with impunity.
--Noam Chomsky


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The right to lie in the service of power is guarded with considerable vigor and passion.
--Noam Chomsky

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
--Albert Camus

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
--Paramahansa Yogananda


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

ANSWER: Billy Graham

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