"We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear."

-- Bernard Werber

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“Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.”

Source : "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.
“The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.”
“I can only fulfill myself by serving someone or something apart from myself, and if I am unable to care for anyone or anything separate from me, I am unable to care for myself.”
“I also believe that upending ingrained ideas about what assault is a gun to the head, a stranger, a parking lot and what consent looks like a woman who gives a no really means yes is very messy. And part of the messiness is some students - and yes, usually these are liberal students - over-determining the definition of assault.”
“The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage
“If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.”
“The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills â€” and as immortal.”
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”

Source : Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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