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Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#art #arts #aural #cinema #elastic

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution. ↗

— Edward Teller

#even #may #paradoxes #solution #suggest

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#chaos #comes #failure #generally #going

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#any #asked #congo #council #course

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#becomes #enough #even #life #need

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning. ↗

— Denise Morrison

#discussions #involve #manager #most #performance

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

#always #divinity #enthusiasm #i #like

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. ↗

— John Templeton

#been #being #church #come #concept

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#each #generation #names #new #new people