"I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.”
“But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.”

Source : "An In-Depth Conversation With the Cast of ‘Pretty Little Liars’". Interview with Natasha Vargas-Cooper, bullettmedia.com. March 12, 2012.
“Ah, tell them they are men!”
“The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.”
“The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.”
“I’m crying because I feel wronged. I keep making mistakes and nothing seems to work for me.”
“There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster
“The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread.”

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