#tween

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#demands #essential #individual #link #mass

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler. ↗

— Mike Farrell

#conversation #cooler #difference #intimate #people

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#choose #film #gun #had #head

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#believe #between #deserves #distinction #fuzzy

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#annually #average #between #campus #fires

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#acknowledged #actions #between #change #climate

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#cats #countryman #fish #lawyers #like

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#between #haven #i #i think #people