"Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place."

-- Jim Butcher

#Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.”
“I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.”

Source : "Oscars and the 'Oh, wow' factor" by Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2003.
“The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.”
“Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
“Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.”
“Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.”
“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.130, Diversion Books

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