"In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn't joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.”

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“Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.”
“You must always know what it is that you want.”
“Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.”
“It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.”
“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.”
“Our passion is our strength.”
“... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak”

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