#ms

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#does #enlarge #idea #meeting #oneself

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride. ↗

— David Bowie

#been #done #fact #good #i

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#against #anything #customs #extremes #films

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #predestination #prophecy #sorcery #dreams

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #contemptible #even #himself #lets

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. ↗

— Les Brown

#dreams #help #help others #others #their

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#clinton #i #i can #investigative #many

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. ↗

— Robert Stack

#al capone #arms #around #capone #i

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#good #him #himself #how #know