"We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever."

-- Bill McKibben

#Mistake Quotes #Nice Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.”
“Iâ€™ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that â€˜actors are great liars.â€™ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be â€˜actors are terrible liars,â€™ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) Whatâ€™s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.”
“No one can bring to God what you can.”
“I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.”
“The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.”
“I feel very fortunate to have been sort of a tiny instigator, using technology for good.”
“The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do.”
“Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.”

Source : "Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper". Book by Bryan Magee, 1997.

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