"It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true."

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Source : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

Harriet Martineau

#Truth Quotes #Suppression Quotes #Diffusion Quotes

“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.”
“The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.”
“Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.”
“I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.”

Source : "Exclusive interview with Chris Pine and Alex Kurtzman about 'People Like Us'". Interview with Jason Roestel, www.axs.com. June 27, 2012.
“There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.”
“Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.”
“If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.”
“Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.”

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