"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."

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Source : "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews". Book edited by Malcolm Cowley, First Series, New York: Viking Press, p. 261, 1959.

Angus Wilson

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Heroism Quotes

“My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.”
“I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.”
“Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.”
“Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve .”

Source : "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner,, 1965.
“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”
“It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.”
“It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”
“Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.”

Source : Bruce Tognazzini (1992). “Tog on Interface”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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