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“I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.”
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“But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. “You're green. Are you sick?†“It's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,†I say. “It's meant to be pretty,†whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, “I think you'd be pretty in any color.”
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“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”
Source : "God, Atheism and Evidence: A Response to Veritas48". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 11, 2010. 
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“Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.”
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“I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.”
Source : "Shock horror! Park Chan-Wook is refreshingly normal". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2009.
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“The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.”
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“I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“You are skilled. I exhort you.”
