"Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions."

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Source : "Sparks Fly" by James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovins, www.salon.com. May 27, 2005.

Amory Lovins

#Facts Quotes #Fantasy Quotes #Conclusion Quotes

“Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.”
“In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.”
“The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.”
“What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.”
“Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.”

Source : "Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society".
“Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.”
“You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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