"The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut."

-- Max Beckmann

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“To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.”
“There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940 to 1970 is inconsistent with models based on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. There is no reliable evidence to support that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years.”
“Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?”
“I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.”
“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”
“If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.”

Source : Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.108, TAN Books
“The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.”

Source : "Character Pitfalls" by Kristan Higgins, www.savethecat.com. March 28, 2014.
“Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they are common in economics departments. Exemplifying the homo economicus paradigm, economists typically choose their research projects and hypotheses so as to promote their own careers, to maximize their lifetime income. This explains the astonishing pressures toward conformity in academic economics: how deviant views (except those by a few who have already achieved stardom) get crushed by an army of conformists.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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