I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
Recitation: by Male by Female
Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
Joanna Scott
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Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.
Johan Rockstrom
GoodBusinessMoreAbilityRivers
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
Johann Georg Hamann
UnderstandingAttentionBeliefSigns
When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.
Meg Rosoff
HomeCityWorldStrongWayUp
I'm very level-headed and business minded.
Matt Hardy
BusinessVeryMinded
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
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When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.
Roald Dahl
GoodChildrenPeopleWritingWorld
I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.
Rupert Friend
LoveNightDoingSameEveryNights
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.
Judge Reinhold
GoodPeopleStoryYouWillMatter
I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.
Joss Whedon
DeathPeopleEnemiesPrettyAnnoying
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act extends religious liberty to corporations without regard to their for-profit and non-profit status.
Josh Hawley
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