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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#cultivated #fertile #free #well

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves. ↗

— Christine McVie

#much #out #pointed #pretty #somebody

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#did #directed #guilt #others #ourselves

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#discomfort #expanded #most #often #through

I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#deep #deny #dug #fascinated #guess

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#getting #involved #really #want #you

Mistakes show us what we need to learn. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#mistakes #need #show #us

Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#nothing

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#bad news #entirely #fault #gets #good

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#childhood #experience #i #inhibited #knew