I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.
Thalia
Recitation: by Male by Female
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
John Burnside
BirdsGoNowMoreStillPesticides
My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
Jens Lekman
LifeMusicWordsBelieveThought
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie
FoolDareWillReasonSlaveCannot
It's not foreign for me to be talking about my problems in circles.
Matthew Perry
MeProblemsTalkingCirclesForeign
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.
Amanda Knox
WritingMemoirWouldDisappearing
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull
ChildrenManBrokenMeLawDrunk
I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.
Simon Conway Morris
SadMeConsistencyColleaguesThink
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost
TrueOnlyWriterEarReader
My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.
Roz Chast
SingleLinePunchJustCartoons
Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.
Joseph de Maistre
TruthManSpeakWillAlwaysOver
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Jonah Goldberg
ThoughtRealityOrganizingFindTry
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
Dick Wolf
PeopleStand UpForwardStandStop
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