#ows

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#firm #how #knows #make #open

One today is worth two tomorrows. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#tomorrows #two #worth

Who sows fear, reaps weapons. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#reaps #sows #weapons #who

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#course #god #grace #grows #heart

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place. ↗

— Laurel Lee

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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#film #great #happily #i #i do

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#critical #grows #less #more #older

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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