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- The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
from Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator® by byquoteresearch
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Bertrand Russell in his essay Freedom and Government, in a collection of essays titled “Freedom: Its Meaning” edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
- Heinlein first outlined his rules in Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing (1947). In his contribution to the compilation, he wrote the following, largely as an afterthought to his article:
“I’m told that these articles are supposed to be some use to the reader. I have a guilty feeling that all of the above may have been more for ... See morefrom Heinlein's Rules of Writing: Principles for Success - WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® by Becca Puglisi
These are applicable for any creator who produces an output for an audience to consume. It must be created for an audience, for a creation to qualify; this is my belief. Any creation. If you are a creator and by creator I mean, a writer, musician, comic, whatever it is. This must be the mantra. If its not on the market, no one knows.
- I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!
from Things I'm thinking about by sari azout
“It is the best of humanity, I think, that goes out to walk. In happy hours all affairs may be wisely postponed for this. Dr. Johnson said, ‘Few men know how to take a walk,’ and it is pretty certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of those few. It is a fine art; there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors from the apprentices.
... See morefrom Solvitur Ambulando: It Is Solved By Walking
- “I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.”
– John O’Donohuefrom Sign in
- A self-question: what is my personal mission in life? (What drives me? What are my values? What do I want my legacy to be?) — When considering a new job, researching a company, etc., I often look at their mission statement to see whether I feel I would be a good fit. I also keep coming back to the mission while working at that company to see if th
... See morefrom Sign in
- My dad, I tell him, is of the view that the more gadgets we have, the less we can think, and Higgs smiles and agrees: "I have a bit of that, too." His son gave him a mobile phone two months ago, but he is yet to make a call, and no one outside his family knows the number. "I resent being disturbed in this way. Why should people be able to interrupt... See more
from Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence' by Decca Aitkenhead
Peter Higgs
- “There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,” Oscar Wilde wrote in the preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, “books are well written or badly written, that is all.”
from Analyst or Moralist?
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something — anything — down on paper. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft — you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft — you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draf... See more
from First drafts - Austin Kleon