"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."

-- Federico Fellini

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“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.”
“The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.”

Source : "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.
“My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be reengineered. I was also focused on operations, getting things done and built. My engineering training taught me to be a pragmatist.”
“With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.”
“Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.”
“I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.”
“Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.”
“Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands, or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion, and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.267, Random House

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