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I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#book #exploit #great #hold #i

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#back #energy #enjoy #giving #i

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#happen #i #knew #planned #success

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#company #founded #i #ran #until

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#code #complicated #detailed #guidelines #irs

That's all nonviolence is - organized love. ↗

— Joan Baez

#nonviolence #organized

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#into #like #teeth #writers

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#credulous #everything #imaginative #most #people

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#imaginations #men #often #ruled #said

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest