"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization."

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Source : Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.1500, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Roger Ebert

#Wisdom Quotes #Believe Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.”

Source : "Nearly Every Abrupt Market Downturn Shares This One Characteristic" by John Mauldin, www.businessinsider.com. August 13, 2014.
“Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.”
“Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.”
“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.”
“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage
“Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.”
“And how can it be he's so in love with me? To grow up without love, and still have so much inside?”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

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