George Santayana Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. – George Santayana Advertising Quotes Argument Quotes Function Quotes Modern Quotes Substitute Quotes Worse Quotes To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
Riz Ahmed When I was growing up, I felt like I had to qualify it and say I’m British-Pakistani. But now I kind of feel like, in this day in age, this is what British looks like. It looks like me; it looks like Idris Elba, and hopefully through Nasir Khan, people will see that that’s what an American can look like as well. – Riz Ahmed
Jisoo When I was young I didn’t really go out a lot, and only stuck to my neighborhood, so I got to know the places in Seoul thanks to Lisa. – Jisoo
Henning Mankell I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to stop work in the middle of a sentence. Then you know exactly how to continue the day after. – Henning Mankell
Peter Bergen European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the ‘American dream’ that has helped to absorb successfully wave after wave of immigration to the States, including Muslim Americans who are well integrated into American society. There is no analogous French dream or German dream. – Peter Bergen
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