"Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape."

-- Jonathan Gottschall

#Intellectual Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.”
“Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.”

Source : "My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2009.
“If I have only one life . . . let me live it as a blonde.”
“You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.”
“You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
“When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.”
“Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.”
“'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.”

Source : Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.25, The Crowood Press

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