George Ritzer (1940) American sociologist
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 15, Global Inequalities II: Global Majority-Minority Relations, p. 455
"Exclusive Interview With Mark Zuckerberg" (Nov. 30, 2004) http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~fbar/comm570/Readings/markzuckerberginterview.pdf
George Ritzer (1940) American sociologist
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 15, Global Inequalities II: Global Majority-Minority Relations, p. 455
“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Article "The Worst Man in the World" in The Sunday Dispatch (2 July 1933); quoted in The Magical Revival (1972) by Kenneth Grant.
Context: Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature. The recoil upon those who practice it is terrific.
It is like looking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle. As far as the search goes, there is little fear of failure!
To practice black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency, and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.
I have been accused of being a "black magician." No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.
Veronica Roth (1988) American author
About the End of Allegiant (SPOILERS), Roth, Veronica, Veronica Roth, October 28, 2013, November 3, 2013 http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/2013/10/about-end-of-allegiant-spoilers.html, <br class="br">Quoted at: <br class="br"> Veronica Roth offers huge explanation for 'Allegiant's' big twist – will it appease you?, Sims, Andrew, Hypable, October 28, 2013, November 6, 2013 http://www.hypable.com/2013/10/28/allegiant-review-tris-dies-veronica-roth-response/,
Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer
Source: Turning to one another (2002), p. 19
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.”
Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
Dr. Moog (1934–2005) electronic music pioneer and inventor from the United States
From the film Moog (2004)
Context: The more you get into material and matter, all you realize is in matter, there is energy. There is a blur between energy and consciousness. All material is conscious to some extent or another. All material can respond to some extent or another to vibrations of energy that is different to energy you learn about in physics. There are all sorts of reliable information now on people and animal being able to be able to effect the operations of machines—even of computers—and I think that has great implications for what goes on between a musician and his instrument. There is a level of reality where there is no time, and there is no space, there is just energy. And we have contact with that through the intermediate layers, so, if the right channels—if the right connections are established, I don’t see why a piece of matter, a piece of broken glass or and old record can’t make contact through this very high level of reality that has access to everything past and future. I suppose my instruments do retain some sort of memory of me. I know that when I’m working on them I feel (not explicitly, I don’t hear voices in my head or anything) that I’m making a connection with it. The circuit diagram, that is then converted into a circuit board, which then becomes a part of an instrument is something that is a record that I made. So I guess in that sense it is something that is certainly a memory.
Luis Miguel (1970) Puerto Rican singer; music producer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcBk2gKaTQg
Interview in Chile, 1997
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Chapter III "Pickwick Papers" (1911)