#gr

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#always #being #every #everybody #get

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#does #growth #marginal #margins #minority

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conviction #emotional #favour #finds #grounds

Great ideology creates great times. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#great #ideology #times

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. ↗

— Thomas Erskine

#grace #gratitude #new #new testament #religion

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. ↗

— Richard Russo

#against #already #always #any #been

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#enjoy #grumpy #i #sure #walking