"If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”
“I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.”
“Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.”
“For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.”
“I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went a little something like this: â€œIf it comes out black, its Darwin's and if it comes out white its Ray's.â€ This is how things were done in the trailer park.”
“I find folding laundry very relaxing.”
“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”
“Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.”

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