"I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

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“There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.”
“As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.”
“Principles are what people have instead of God.”
“The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 88, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.
“The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.”

Source : "Reading 'The Reader' with Stephen Daldry". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.
“I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.”
“Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love”
“Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.”

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