"First, those images help us understand the general……" — Bruce Jackson
"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
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Bruce Jackson
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36 Quotes by Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson has 36 quotes on this site.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and…
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
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Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
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Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.
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Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films…
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be…
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the…
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose…
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press:…
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More Aid Quotes
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one of 747 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
— Conrad Black
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with…
— Bono
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
— James Buchan
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while…
— James Buchan
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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call,…
— James Buchan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
— Paul Cezanne
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
— William Ellery Channing
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