"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, â€œI am suffering,â€ than to say, â€œThis landscape is ugly."

-- Simone Weil

#Imagination Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Facts Quotes

“But witchy magic doesnâ€™t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didnâ€™t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.”
“An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“It's not that we use technology, we live technology.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in office, he introduced legislation that reformed and over five years effectively dismantled the electoral system. So anything that passes for elections in Russia today has nothing to do with actual elections.”
“I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.”
“We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.”
“At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.”
“Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.”

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