"For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home."

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Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com

Aldis Hodge

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“There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.”
“Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.”

Source : John Mortimer (2010). “CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE”, p.40, Penguin UK
“The thing that makes me feel powerful is when I make a decision about something and I make it happen.”
“When you are young in this world, you believe that the class of deductive truths about social matters is larger than it turns out to be. [...] I have discovered, to my infinite regret, that most of the serious debates over the basic principles of any political order have an irreducible empirical content.”
“Suppose hypothetically that one out of every 200 people or so is a jerk. In today's world these jerks will discover that if they enter government or business they can become super rich and powerful jerks. Do we conclude, therefore, that markets (or government) have caused greed? No, the fact is that once we no longer live in tiny tribes of 200, anonymity allows some people, who would have been ***** in a small tribe but who would have been sanctioned there, to go off and become jerks on a much, much larger scale.”
“How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.”
“The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.”

Source : Gerald R. Barrett, Thomas L. Erskine, Conrad Aiken (1972). “From fiction to film: Conrad Aiken's Silent snow, secret snow”

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