#gains

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Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.


Alan Bates


#does #go #i #i do #inner

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.


Cecil Beaton


#any #background #gold #islands #landscape

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.


Bernard Berenson


#capacity #genius #productive #reaction #training

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.


Wendell Berry


#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.


Ernest Bevin


#been #before #calmly #common #common man

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?


Andrea Arnold


#against #also #another #been #books

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.


Marcus Aurelius


#arm #disturb #future #meet #never

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.


Irving Babbitt


#crusade #democracy #forth #going #imperialism

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.


Irving Babbitt


#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.


Henry Campbell-Bannerman


#against #another #answers #approach #begets