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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.


Panayiotis Zavos


#achieve #ambition #because #bodies #correctly

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?


Pieter Zeeman


#circumstances #distorted #disturbing #factors #had

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.


Clara Zetkin


#belgium #children #democratic #destruction #districts

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.


A. N. Wilson


#across #been #came #child #ernest

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.


Howard Zinn


#dissent #form #highest #highest form

If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and construct, in time, a novel? It seemed logical, but there was the matter of finding an idea and sustaining it. Only fire could do that. The fire of rebellion. Mario Vargas Llosa had not used the term “fire” exactly, but rather had discussed the presence of “seditious roots” that could “dynamite the world” the writer inhabited. He claimed that writing stories was an exercise in freedom and quarreling—out-and-out rebellion, whether or not the writer was conscious of it. And this rebellion, Vargas Llosa reminded his readers, was why the Spanish Inquisition had strictly censored works of fiction, prohibiting them for three hundred years in the American colonies.


L.L. Barkat


#mario-vargas-llosa #novel-writing #writer #writing #writing-a-novel

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.


E. O. Wilson


#been #believe #belong #great #human

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.


Evan Rachel Wood


#take #time #you #yourself

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.


Garry Winogrand


#described #fact #i #like #look

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.


Jeanette Winterson


#fundamentalist #got #haven #i #stuff






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