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“What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.”
Source : Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press
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“You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum.”
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“Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.”
Source : Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival: Film tie-in”, p.195, Pan Macmillan
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“I think trusting your instincts and doing what is right by you is the most important thing, because at the end of the day you go to bed and you wake up as you.”
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“Quality is pride of workmanship.”
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“I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.”
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“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”
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“The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.”
Source : "U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Hero Returns for Senior Year". Interview with Dave Lohse, www.goheels.com. August 12, 1999.