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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#drama #everyone #gets #head #interesting

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

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In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president. ↗

— Richard Ernst

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It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#always #art #both #debate #doing

West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#came #every #every man #gay #grocery

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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