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“I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.”
Source : Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
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“A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.”
Source : James Schuyler (1972). “The Crystal Lithium-Pa”, Random House (NY)
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“The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.”
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“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
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“A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.”
Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.”
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“There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.”
Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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“From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com