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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. ↗

— David Attenborough

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If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. ↗

— David Attenborough

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Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. ↗

— Russell Baker

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

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