"People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system."

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Source : "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

Max Hastings

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“Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.”
“We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.”
“I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.”
“if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.”
“I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.”
“Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.”
“It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.”
“How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?”

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