"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy."

-- David Cronenberg

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“I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.”
“As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizÂing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.”
“It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.”
“There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.”
“...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.”
“In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.”

Source : Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.
“Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.”
“By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.”

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