"Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived."

-- Ernest Renan

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“Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.”
“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”
“You canâ€™t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you â€”- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because theyâ€™re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I donâ€™t believe in God. Because he doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesnâ€™t have a fixed form. Even if itâ€™s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a personâ€™s past canâ€™t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If thatâ€™s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isnâ€™t that like being god?”
“With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.”
“Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.”
“Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?”
“The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.”
“The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.”

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