"I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer."

-- Alex Flinn

#Believe Quotes #Hard Times Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“A master passion is the love of news.”

Source : 'The Newspaper' (1785) l. 279
“I can't say, 'I eat whatever I want when I want,' but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.”
“Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.”
“Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.”
“I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.”
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
“No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.”
“But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52, 1989.

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