"Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare."

-- Peter Brook

#Past Quotes #Light Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.”
“More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”
“Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny...”
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
“Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.”
“Its difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind”
“It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.”
“All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent”

Source : "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century". Book by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 21, 2015.

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