"I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real."

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China Mieville

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.”

Source : "Letters", reason.com. February 1976.
“We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.”

Source : Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.139, Macmillan
“I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.”
“We have a nation where the elite thinks it's OK to advocate a war and send the lower-income people to do the fighting. It's natural for such a people to think that the lower-income people should also have a worse health care experience. And the other countries are not there - I always say, not there yet. I tell the Germans and the Swiss, "You're not there yet, but if you're not very, very careful, if we Americans come over there and rearrange ... your health care system, you will be just like us."”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!”
“I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.”
“The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Sep 11, 2012

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