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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#destruction #examining #fears #filmmakers #issues

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#artist #emperor #her #his #oppresses

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#am #business #christ #day #great

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#distinction #hand #having #men #most

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. ↗

— Henry Adams

#come #damnation #god #goodness #happy

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ↗

— Henry Adams

#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#cases #censorship #get #i #i think

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. ↗

— Lord Acton

#bear #cannot #contrary #development #discussion

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. ↗

— Amy Adams

#assume #attention #attitude #because #enough