"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

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Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

Irving Babbitt

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“I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.”
“Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.”
“Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses”
“People always give me styling products and stuff”
“I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.”

Source : "John C. Reilly, with Jake Kasdan". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 25, 2007.
“Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain....There was never a place for me in the scheme of things....I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges....I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.”
“Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.”

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