"If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies."

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Allan W. Eckert

#Philosophy Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“We are all just monkeys with money and guns.”
“Religion and science look at reality differently.”

Source : "Religion vs. Science’s Answers to the Big Questions" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.
“We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.”
“I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.”
“First-book novelists and storywriters haven't yet failed and so it's easier to publish them - you can gamble on a success. Whereas someone who has written four books that are highly literary and demanding and require you as a reader. They may not be republished.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.”
“Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (2006). “In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978”, p.46, Routledge

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