"It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown."

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John Hart

#Meltdowns Quotes #Exaggeration Quotes

“I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.”
“There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.”
“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesnâ€™t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -Â- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesnâ€™t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesnâ€™t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.”

Source : "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist" by Ricky Gervais, blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.
“It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.”
“Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.”
“Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.”
“Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.”
“Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy!”

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