"Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity."

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Source : Ray Brassier (2007). “Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism”, Palgrave Macmillan

Ray Brassier

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“There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort.”
“By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.”

Source : "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
“I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease ...”

Source : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press
“I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.”
“I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.”

Source : Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.
“People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.”
“Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press
“He who analyses blitz is stupid.”

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