"The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go."

-- Peter Singer

#Special Quotes #Reason Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.”
“If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.”
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

Source : Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.314, Macmillan
“Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.”
“The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.”
“I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.”
“For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)”
“John Huston is more of a creative director than most.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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