"To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large."

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“Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.”
“And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.”
“Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.”
“A nervous silence loosens tongues”
“To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.”
“Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1855). “An essay on intuitive morals [by F.P. Cobbe] 2 pt”, p.134
“We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.”
“I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.”

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