"Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views."

-- Peter Singer

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“The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.”
“If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.”
“My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.”
“I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.”
“Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.”
“After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.”
“Movies are an editor's medium.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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