#venti

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#approaches #hard #i #i think #invention

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#eighties #fairly #grow #i #intense

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#anything #artist #felt #had #hits

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#causation #i #prevention #started #work

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#anybody #black #black comedy #chinese #comedy

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#brightest #fire #heaven #invention #muse

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. ↗

— Tom Shales

#albert einstein #attention #attention span #daffy #duck

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bill clinton #chance #clinton #convention #during

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days. ↗