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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#basis #birth #death #evangelists #fact

Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#competent #consider #credibility #establishing #evangelists

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#mistakes #people #repeat #same #specialists

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#before #biographies #drawn #few #had

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#concern #desire #every #every nation #extreme

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #asked #directors #films #i

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#alarming #always #because #environmentalists #feared

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#contradiction #elsewhere #fire #fundamentalists #good

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#ask #bible #cannot #certainty #decay