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“The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”
Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.
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“Always take a banana to a party.”
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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.”
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“God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.”
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“Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.”
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“I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.”
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“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.”
Source : Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated
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“I like being organized and super particular.”
