E. M. Forster Quotes
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Everything I say is true.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
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I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
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How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
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In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
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No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
