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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. ↗

— Graham Greene

#cannot #material #movie #owe #respectful

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#also #american #believer #bring #competition

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#by the people #classified #control #could #data

It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#believe #matters #only #shine #their

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#affairs #because #demonstrative #evidence #expect

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #big #big band #business

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#bands #because #escape #go #interested

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#electronic #having #hence #i #images

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#immature #once #only #you #young