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“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.”
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“Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.”
Source : Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.121, Tachyon Publications
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“The Statue of Liberty really is profound, I just wish she'd lighten up a bit.”
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“If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.”
Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.8, HMH
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“Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.”
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“I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“Never pass by a chance to shut up.”
Source : "The Emperor and the Maula". Short story by Robert Silverberg, 2007.
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“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”