"The older I get, the better I was."

-- Van Dyke Parks

“Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.”
“To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.”
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this worldâ€™s worst kind of pain.”
“It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 19), 2006.
“All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.”

Source : "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.
“We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.”
“Hatred is a settled anger.”
“You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.”

Source : "Nuclear Weapons - Iranian Statements", www.globalsecurity.org. December 14, 2001.

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