#eve

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#contribution #differences #each #established #ever

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. ↗

— Paul Rudd

#everybody #first #generic #goldfish #great

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#anything #back #ever #give #going

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#banned #been #blood #courted #doctors

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#automatic #become #book #me #never

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #commonplace #concealment #however #may

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. ↗

— John Ruskin

#neither #person #reverent #unimaginative

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

#consists #everything #nothing #perfection #plainly

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. ↗

— John Ruskin

#done #ever #good #pictorial #representation