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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics. ↗


— Douglas Hurd


#just #labelled #like #people #politics

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. ↗


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


#between #gulf #intellectuals

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world. ↗


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


#arab world #intellectuals #internationally #loved #many

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? ↗


— Steve Jobs


#another #bulb #computer #crude #day

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. ↗


— Steve Jobs


#brief #chance #chosen #die #every

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. ↗


— Howard Mumford Jones


#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

At the very last moment, just before its lips claimed hers, its grip on her face relaxed slightly and she did the only thing she could think of: She head-butted it. Snapped her head back, then forward again, and bashed it square in the face as hard as she could. So hard, in fact, that it made her woozy and gave her an instant migraine, making her wonder how Jean-Claude Van Damme always managed to coolly continue fighting after such a stunt. Obviously, movies lied. ↗


— Karen Marie Moning


#gabrielle-o-callaghan #movies

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. ↗


— Augustus Hare


#born #conceit #could #filled #half

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ↗


— Howard Hawks


#director #function #i #make #move






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