"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

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Neal Stephenson

#Facts Quotes #Nuance Quotes #Vapor Quotes

“If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!”
“Time is running out to deal with climate change.”
“It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'”
“Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.”
“There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.”
“I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.â€¦ I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.”

Source : Eric Rohmer, Jean Narboni (1989). “Goput de la BeautGe. English”, p.80, Cambridge University Press
“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain â€“ the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims â€“ swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”

Source : "At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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