"The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic."

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Source : "To die is very strange". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

Christian Boltanski

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“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.”
“Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.”
“We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.”
“Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, canâ€™t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates â€” or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?”
“I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.”
“Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.”

Source : "Facebook Is a Surveillance Engine, Not Friend: Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation". Interview with Sriram Srinivasan and Sangeetha Kandavel, economictimes.indiatimes.com. February 07, 2012.
“This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said.”
“Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us”

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