Top 32 Bergen Evans Quotes
#1. All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. [I]n every theology or system, every tradition or discursive practice, a story is being told whose peculiar force should be allowed priority over the abstract categories by which the critic might seek to reduce all narrative to the same bare framework of elementary functions.
David Bentley Hart
#3. Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
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#4. It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
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#5. Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#6. Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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#7. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
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#8. I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
Malcolm McDowell
#9. One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.
Bob Latta
#10. We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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#11. The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
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#13. A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
Alfred De Musset
#14. Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
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#15. We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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#16. That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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#17. Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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#18. When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
Samuel Johnson
#19. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and I don't know what.
Ray Bradbury
#20. There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom ...
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#21. Maybe I should have gone back to Weight Watchers and tried harder to lose my luscious hips and overlarge ass. If I'd known it might keep me from being abducted by aliens, you bet I would have counted points until Doomsday. It's
Evangeline Anderson
#22. Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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#23. Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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#24. He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'
Tommy Bond
#25. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
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#26. I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
Norman Jewison
#27. Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
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#28. An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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#29. So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
Chris Milk
#30. The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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#31. Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
Benito Mussolini
#32. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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