"Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions."

-- Regina Spektor

#Writing Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Stories Quotes

“We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.”
“I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”

Source : Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG
“By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.”

Source : Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences (1988). “Global mind change: the promise of the last years of the twentieth century”
“These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.”
“The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?”
“Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.”
“We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
“Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.”

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