"The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us."

-- Karl Popper

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“It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. Miss March is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages.”

Source : "Miss March" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. March 13, 2009.
“Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.”
“My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”
“Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.”
“The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.”
“Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.”
“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”
“Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.”

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