#altered

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. ↗

— Gregor Strasser

#distributing #distribution #economic #economic system #false

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. ↗

— William Gibson

#dream-state #fading #lost #slipping-away #vulnerability

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#cannot #deceit #facts #generation #historical

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#decisive #earth #effect #had #marine

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#altered #being #claim #despair #ever

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#anger #argue #bone #consider #disagree

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#chance #colleagues #decisions #discuss #get

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be. ↗

— William John Wills

#buildings #cheaper #fair #i #last

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#am #amount #behavior #commerce #company