#ought

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deal #great #great deal #kindness #little

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ↗

— John Ruskin

#capable #change #does #expressing #incapable

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#distinguishing #price #sign #slavery

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#earth #ecclesiastical #else #everything #fixed

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#danger #endeavoring #go #occupy #ought

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#could #guide #i #i can #myself

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#after #always #baseball #designed #family

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. ↗

— John Ruskin

#also #give #nothing #thought #unless

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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