"Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment."

-- Peter Ritchie Calder

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“When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.”
“Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.”
“If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?”
“I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.”
“Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.”
“After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.”

Source : "Weeds Newcomer Is High on His Role". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. August 26, 2005.
“You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.”

Source : Edmund Vance Cooke, “Don't Take Your Troubles To Bed”
“But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.”

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