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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#am #archaeology #astronomy #based #basis

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#animal #animal life #avoiding #beasts #bodily

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#course #differentiated #full #how #individual

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#natural #need #plants #pruning #study

From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions. ↗

— Bille August

#cut #how #know #prepared #shoot

We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter. ↗

— Bille August

#best #best intentions #bits #certain #complete

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#expect #expected #prevented #should #unexpected

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#businesses #executives #highly #many #paid

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#does #ears #eyes #feet #hands

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#again #been #being #found #lost