#acts

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, “if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? ↗

— Charles Stross

#contract-law #contracts #publishing #worst-case-scenarios #business

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. ↗

— Seymour Simon

#exploring #facts #kids #teaching #change

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#kindness #religion #change

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#memory #change

I just wanna say nothing is permanent in this world, only change ↗

— Jayson Engay

#facts-of-life #change

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them. ↗

— John White Geary

#brief #facts #find #give #i

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself? ↗

— David Levithan

#facts #love #dating

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#facts #dreams

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #facts-and-ideas #politics #dreams