"It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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“To my surprise, Joscelin rose. â€˜Phedre-â€™ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. â€˜Phedre yields with a willowâ€™s grace,â€™ he said softly. â€˜And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning.”
“Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”

Source : "Uncivil Discourse - and Hypocrisy in the Senate on Display". On the Record", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2009.
“Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.”
“They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't stop talking. They just don't get it.”
“All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.”
“I'm not here to criticize anyone.”

Source : "Conversations with a Cult (Film) Director Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Eric Ravenscraft, gawker.com. August 19, 2010.
“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.”
“I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on ***** in a lot of ways.”

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