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True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#philosophy #politics #art

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#gut #mind #point #something #soul

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do. ↗

— Martin Lawrence

#back up #bestowed #blessings #down #fall

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#funny

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate. ↗

— Martin Lawrence

#go #i #me #meditate #off

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#director #film #freedom #gives #very

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up. ↗

— Vicki Lawrence

#comes #else #happened #me #something

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. ↗

— Mark Lawrenson

#cloth #cut #know #managers #onions

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party. ↗

— Michael Laws

#bigger #get #headline #likely #nothing