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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#age

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#become #conductor #every #every nation #following

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#dictates #everything #good #good thing #marketing

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #art

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#could #directing #discuss #doing #glad

In life, we all learn from everyone. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#learn #life

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time. ↗

— Axl Rose

#friends #lovers #one time #sometimes #time

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#becoming #celebrate #day #deed #every

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. ↗

— Christopher Caudwell

#art #beauty #economics #poetry #truth

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#friends-to-lovers #love #realizations #relationships #sydney-sage