"The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories."

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Source : Brian Morton (1999). “Starting Out in the Evening”, Berkley Publishing Group

Brian Morton

#Together Quotes #Orbit Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world. We also know the positive experiences of socialism not only in our geographic environment but also like what we are witnessing in China.”
“I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.”
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.”
“The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.”
“Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.”
“A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.”
“According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.”

Source : "Policy Lessons From Recent Gun Control Research". Article by Gary Kleck, 1986.

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