"Itâ€™s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. Itâ€™s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for."

-- Ricky Gervais

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“I showed sideboob. I don't need to show ass. You get one or the other. You don't get both.”
“Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.”
“In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.”
“The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.”
“America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.”
“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.”

Source : "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,
“The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization. ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge.”

Source : Hans Reichenbach (1973). “The Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, p.5, Univ of California Press
“Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.”

Source : "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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