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William Graham Sumner

"Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration."

-- William Graham Sumner

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“Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.”

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“People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.”
“Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.”
“There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. Â—”
“This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited
“Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.”
“Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I donâ€™t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I donâ€™t like it.”
“The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.”

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