"I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?"

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Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.491, Macmillan

John Brunner

#Attitude Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Well maybe it is stupid, but it's also dumb!”
“It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.”
“Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, heâ€™s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors heâ€™s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, heâ€™s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.”
“Have they defected? They have not gone yet.”
“I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.”

Source : John Evelyn (1997). “John Evelyn, Cook: The Manuscript Receipt Book of John Evelyn”, Prospect Books (UK)
“The most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to the food on our tables and the gas in our cars. There is always a price to be paid, she reminds us, for the pleasures and comforts of this day.Â If you read only one memoir this year, this is the one to read and pass along.”

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