"Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths."

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Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Autobiography Of Henry VIII”, p.146, Pan Macmillan

Margaret George

#Use Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.”
“The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.”
“Jesus did not ask us to believe that his death was a blood sacrifice, that he was going to die for our sins.”
“What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids. Now we've got a problem.”
“There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.”
“If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are. Â Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are. Â If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!”
“Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.”
“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.”

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