"I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible."

-- Julian Baggini

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“If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.”
“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”
“A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think we would look at other possibilities that would deliver further passenger capacity, that would deliver further infrastructure to the north of England but would be better value for taxpayers.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.”
“Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.”
“I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!”
“The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.”

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