"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

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Source : Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com

Robert Browning

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“If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.”
“You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.”
“Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.”
“Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It dethrones the ego from the center of our lives and puts others there, breaking down the carapace of the selfishness that holds us back from an experience of the sacred. And it gives us ecstasy, broadening our perspectives and giving us a larger, enhanced vision.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.331, Vintage Canada
“The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.”
“Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.”

Source : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.
“Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.”
“What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.”

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