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Kenneth Clark

"I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history."

Source : Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

Kenneth Clark

#Believe Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes

“If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.”
“Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.”
“The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.”
“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.”

Source : "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.
“The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.”
“I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”
“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”

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