"The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“By directing combat and war pieces, I could experience catharsis and successfully avoid committing a murder in real life. In this sense, I'm really grateful for that because I was conscious that I had such homicidal traits, to be honest.”
“I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.”
“When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.”
“When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my dad and heard his accent, they thought they were about to hear a five-minute warning to get out the building. People in Britain have always thought it acceptable to make racist remarks about the Irish. The prejudice underlying that supposed joke was everywhere.”
“There's no such thing as failure if you just try.”

Source : John Osborne (1958). “Three Plays”
“men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com
“A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.”

Source : "Bird flu: how two mutant strains led to an international controversy" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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