"I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since."

-- Robert Downey, Jr.

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“Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.”
“Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV”
“I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.”
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”
“There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No - I recover myself - they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying â€œI wishâ€ must say â€œI will.â€ And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.”

Source : "Clarté (Light)". Book by Henri Barbusse translated by Fitzwater Wray (Chapter XXI: No!), 1919.
“Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.”
“Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.”
“Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.”

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