"Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us."

-- Kary Mullis

#Weed Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Art Quotes

“The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.”
“I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.”

Source : Interview with Shrabanti Basu, calcuttatube.com. February 21, 2009.
“As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.”
“You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.”
“City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.”
“I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.”
“The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.”
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”

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