"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy."

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Source : Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters, 1946.

Jorge Luis Borges

#Facts Quotes #Oppression Quotes #Cruelty Quotes

“When you do movies on low budgets, you donâ€™t want to have a location that requires a very big light right outside the window when youâ€™re 10 stories up. You have to find a location where you have a terrace outside, or you can light from a second floor, or you can light through the windows for daylight.”

Source : "Woody Allen’s Cinematographer Has 6 Life-Saving Tips for Low-Budget DPs". Interview with Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. June 14, 2012.
“The soul is the prison of the body.”
“There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.”
“Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.”
“The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.”
“It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.”
“How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.”
“Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.”

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