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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#face #fall #flat #launched #liberal

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cause #clients #congenial #did #duty

Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#begins #elections #end #slavery #where

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#change #climate #common #common sense #fool

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists. ↗

— Michael Apted

#annoying #artists #because #definition #different

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#another #because #clearly #determination #failed

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#comes #cross #music #out #planned

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#believe #cannot #case #confusing #fail