"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."

--

F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Artist Quotes #Two Quotes #Viewpoints Quotes

“Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.”
“Did you just ask me out on a date, Ms Parker?â€ â€œNo.â€ â€œAre you sure? Because I-â€ â€œStill no. I need something, and youâ€™re the only guy who can give it to me.â€ She cut him off before he could even say the words. â€œYes, thank you. Iâ€™m aware of how that sounded. Iâ€™m hanging up now.”
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.”
“We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...”
“Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.”
“The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, â€œa little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.”

Source : Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.”

Source : Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House

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