"We live in the least ugly time in history."

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Source : "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

Joshua Bell

“A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.”

Source : Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.”
“People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in summer. Potted trees revive and suddenly look fresh when a florist sprinkles water on them, while papier-mÃ¢chÃ© turtles hanging out for sale move in the wind and take on souls.”

Source : Haruo Shirane (2013). “Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900”, p.210, Columbia University Press
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretationâ€¦ for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
“My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.”
“The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.”
“I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.”

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