"Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts."

-- Julian Baggini

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“I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.”
“The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.”
“The GP2 championship costs 0.65 percent of what the Formula One championship costs. I don't understand why GP2 cost $2.5 million and our team and other teams cost maybe between $300 and $500 million. I do not see what the difference is.”
“Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him”
“If you donâ€™t believe in your product, or if youâ€™re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.”
“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

Source : John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it”

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