"Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized."

-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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“The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.”
“Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
“Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.”

Source : Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.43, Shambhala Publications
“Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.”
“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”
“Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.”
“If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.”

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