"The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Every laugh is not equal. They come from different places. That's sort of the challenge I go towards, making sure the laughs are for the reasons I want. It becomes a back and forth dance with the audience.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.”

Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press
“I'm always surprised on my social accounts that people assume that because you have a job in television you don't have a political opinion, or don't have a family, or don't have an interest in the rest of the country. It's just absolutely shocking to me how closed minded some people are.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.”
“This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.”
“You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.”
“There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.”

Source : "I'm too sensitive. How can I toughen up?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. Jnuary 26, 2014.
“In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.”

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