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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#knowledge #leads #literary #nothing #straight

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever. ↗

— Tom Felton

#few #films #i #make #maybe

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#god #grace #humbles #shows #sin

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#culture #films #hollywood #i #i am

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling. ↗

— Robert Caro

#getting #know #physical #real #real feeling

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. ↗

— Robert Caro

#books #bug #easy #fool #go

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ↗

— Leslie Caron

#great #happy #how #know #order

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#economic #economic policy #forbidden #new #policy

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#could #doves #exceed #gains #grounds