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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#arrangement #choosing #composure #consists #few

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#his #more #nothing #professional #remedies

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself. ↗

— Joel A. Barker

#go #leader #person #place #will

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#force #lot #positive #real #seem

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty. ↗

— John le Carre

#boy #class family #clothes #dirty #down

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#criminals #democrats #doing #international #nothing

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#broadest #broadest sense #comprehending #instrument #knowledge

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#exactness #extremes #mind #moderation #narrows

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#agent #already #by the people #disregarded #doing

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. ↗

— Peter Fenn

#democracy #dialogue #healthy #open #tenet