"There is something wrong with using faith - belief without evidence - as a political weapon. I wouldn't say there is something similar about using science. Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.”

Source : "From Turkish Corpse to New York Cop" by Jeremy Egner, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2013.
“Christianity doesnâ€™t deny the reality of suffering and evilâ€¦ Our hopeâ€¦ is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.”
“It's just the way I'm made. I do feel confident in what I do. It doesn't always work out 100% of the time, but generally I think I can do it quite well. But the other part of my job is doing the press and stuff. And I'm rubbish at that. I'm really not good at that at all - this quite important part of what I do.”

Source : "Cinema's best-kept secret". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2009.
“Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.”
“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
“One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.”
“Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.”
“I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.”

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