"A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings."

-- Henri Bergson

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“As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.”
“I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.”

Source : "Jazzin’ Around". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.
“Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.”
“Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient.Â They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see”

Source : Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.”
“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
“What man is a man who does not make the world better”

Source : "Fictional character: Balian of Ibelin". "Kingdom of Heaven", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“When I play ball, I play hardball.”

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