Quotes
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William C. Bryant

"The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other."

-- William C. Bryant

#Determination Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.322
“I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 2, 2013.
“Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.”
“One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discussed around the table. We talk about the play, and the actors listen, and there have been cases, you disagree on something... I mean, actors don't usually tell you what they're going to do, they do it. Of course, you try to speak with the director and say, "Is there any way you can bring this actor to do something different?" You try as much as you can, but then, you also have to be open to interpretation.”
“I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.”
“There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.”
“He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.”
“There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.”

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