#again

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#child #give #his #knew #parents

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#against #always #bear #does #falsehood

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#been #come #comes #even #felt

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists. ↗

— David Chalmers

#agree #argue #because #certain #conceivable

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#direct #directing #going #hard #hard work

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

#back #born #china #chinese #civil

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys. ↗

— Michael Chang

#agility #athlete #big #big guys #go

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life. ↗

— Michael Chang

#against #am #feel #give #i

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again. ↗

— James Chanos

#been #difficult #prosper #space #technology