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One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.


Gustave Flaubert


#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.


Christopher Hitchens


#isolationism #middle-east #noninterventionism #respect

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.


James Patterson


#talent #talent

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.


Uwe Boll


#because #buried #chair #dead #electric

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.


Alanna Ubach


#first #had #i #invention #made

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.


Danny Boyle


#absolutely #action #action movies #cinema #even

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.


Gro Harlem Brundtland


#activities #behaviour #changes #combination #comprise

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.


Patrick Cockburn


#conventional-thinking #euphemism #language #laziness #savagery

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.


Rodney Stark


#inventions #technology #faith

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.


John Quincy Adams


#imperialism #independence #isolationism #liberty #noninterventionism






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