"The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?""

-- Sidney Hook

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“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”
“Freedom is living without chains.”
“If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.”

Source : Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.
“I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.”
“The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.”
“I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.”
“As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.”
“This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.”

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