"The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies."
Anonymous
"The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on."
William Faulkner
"I truly believed that a man should not be seen to be out front on feminism. That would be just like a man to try to take over the women's movement. We'd taken over everything else in history, in society, in the world, why not feminism, too? No, I don't think so."
Terry Fallis
"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves."
Malcolm Gladwell
"Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others."
Joan Halifax
"Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency."
Joseph Addison
"I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar."
Michael Mann
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it."
Latin proverb
"Don't analyse your muse too closely, if at all – she'll turn away."
David John Griffin
"In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules."
Diana Galbadon
"I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing."
Tahereh Mafi
"What must not be read must not be written."
Melita Tessy
"Oyin Da’s mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves."
Tade Thompson
"If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it."
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