"Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Mind Quotes #Facts Quotes

“What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.”
“It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime”

Source : "Political Scientism - Beware the Enlightened Ones" by Robin Koerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2017.
“We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.”
“Ah. Medieval-style ransom.â€ Toot looked confused. â€œHe did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.â€ There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them backâ€” poorly. â€œHey, peanut gallery,â€ I said. â€œThis isnâ€™t as easy as Iâ€™m making it look.â€ â€œYouâ€™re doing fine,â€ Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. â€œCome on, Toot,â€ I said, and walked over to Hook.”
“Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.”
“The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.”
“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.”
“I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.”

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