"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."

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Anthony Burgess

#Opposites Quotes #People Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.”
“Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.”
“Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.49, Cambridge University Press
“I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.”
“The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.”
“Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.”
“It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.”

Source : John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.86, Macmillan
“Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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