"The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another."

-- James Mill

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“Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.”
“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”

Source : "The Meaning of God in Human Experience". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. IV : The Retirement of the Intellect, p. 38, 1912.
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”
“The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.”
“Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.”
“I love to take chances. I love first-time directors. I love super-low-budget movies. I've done 80-something movies, and I want to just keep experimenting. First-time directors have new, fresh ideas, and lot of times they're risking a lot to do it, so it means so much to them. They're not just hired; they have their heart on the line, because if you've gone that far, you're probably a very passionate person.”

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“Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too.”
“The more comfort, the less courage there is.”

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