"Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?"

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Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

Leslie Stephen

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“If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press
“I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.”

Source : "TV Gig Pulls Corey Reynolds Away from Broadway". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. June 9, 2006.
“It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.”
“I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.”
“Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was Americaâ€™s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.”

Source : "Editor's Note". www.theparisreview.org. 2010.
“Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.”
“My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.”

Source : Jerome Liebling, Alan Trachtenberg (1997). “Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969”, p.110, Minnesota Historical Society Press

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