#rut

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. ↗

— Albert Claude

#been #brutality #cell #constituents #destroyed

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. ↗

— James Clavell

#important #important work #most #search #the most important

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#ferocious #first #first lady #fun #have fun

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#made #often #scoundrels #time #traitor

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it. ↗

— Levon Helm

#fixes #getting #into #like #night

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. ↗

— John Cleese

#better #get #i #i can #ideas

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#any #deeply #go #got #governments

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. ↗

— Max Eastman

#brute #enemy #face #facts #hope

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. ↗

— William Cobbett

#bludgeon #brute #brute force #force #gives