"[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter"

-- Richard Dawkins

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“It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black
“There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.”
“I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...”
“Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.”

Source : "METALLICA's JAMES HETFIELD: 'People Always Complain About Something'". Interview with Fish Griwkowsky, www.blabbermouth.net. December 8, 2008.
“I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.”
“I don't know why I love cherries and I love pickles. I eat about two or three Claussen pickles a day. Those are just things I snack on.”
“I think it's unhealthy to listen to what people say. My dad used to always say, "Don't believe in your own hype!" I was confused at the time: "Dad, there is no hype on me." But now I understand what he was saying. If someone says, "I think you're amazing" and someone says, "I think you're awful," I would like to have the same reaction to both, to be confident and calm enough to be able to take both of those and not be affected by either.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.”

Source : "'30 Rock's' Judah Friedlander: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 12, 2012.

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