"What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined."

-- Archibald MacLeish

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“It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.”
“I like to start off my day with a glass of champagne...I like to wind it up with a glass of champagne, too. To be frank, I also like a glass or two in between. It may not be the universal medicine for every disease, as my friends in Reims and Epernay so often tell me, but it does you less harm than any other liquid.”
“As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.”

Source : "Mike Mills on “Beginners,” a Love Letter to his Father" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 3, 2011.
“The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.”

Source : "White House: U.S. doesn't need U.N. permission on Iraq" by Jamie McIntyre, www.cnn.com. November 10, 2002.
“Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.”
“Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.”
“I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.”
“The ANC is more important than the Constitution.”

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