"Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.”
“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
“Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.”
“I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music.”
“What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.”
“The best physician is also a philosopher.”

Source : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
“When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.”
“The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.119, Penguin

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