"The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Liberty Quotes #Doe Quotes #Excess Quotes

“I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.”
“The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class”
“Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary.”
“Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.”
“Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.”
“Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasnâ€™t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.”
“It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.”

Source : Jeremy Page (2009). “The Wake”, Viking
“In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.”

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