"In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory."

-- Martin Gardner

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“There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.”
“When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.”
“I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.”
“I'm probably a little too uninhibited.”

Source : "Ben Barnes Talks KILLING BONO and THE SEVENTH SON". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 1, 2011.
“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”
“I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.”
“You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.”
“I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.”

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