George Cecil Jones Quotes & Sayings

We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard. — Candace Fleming

I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won't lead me wrong. — Ciara

You don't see how ridiculous it is that your napkin standards exceed your dress-code standards for getting the mail? — Jewel E. Ann

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. — Arthur D. Hlavaty

Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself. — Bryant McGill

Target isn't alone in its desire to predict consumers' habits. Almost every major retailer, including Amazon, Best Buy, Kroger supermarkets, 1-800-Flowers, Olive Garden, Anheuser-Busch, the U.S. Postal Service, Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, Capital One, and hundreds of others, have "predictive analytics" departments devoted to figuring out consumers' preferences. "But Target has always been one of the smartest at this," said Eric Siegel, who runs a conference called Predictive Analytics World. "The data doesn't mean anything on its own. Target's good at figuring out the really clever questions. — Charles Duhigg

Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship. — Robert Anton Wilson

Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we're educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don't educate them, what we call "education," they're going to take control - "they" being what Alexander Hamilton called the "great beast," namely the people. — Noam Chomsky