"Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas."

-- Mitch Horowitz

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“Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting sense of confidence, peace, and well-being. Among sentient beings, human beings appear to stand alone in their ability to recognize the necessity to forge a bond between reason, emotion, and their instinct to survive, and in doing so create a universe-not only for themselves and the human generations that follow, but also for all creatures who feel pain, fear and suffering-in which we are all able to coexist contentedly and peaceably.”
“I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.”
“The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.”
“There's a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings. It's scary. And I can't believe anybody actually lets me do it. But it's going well so far.”
“I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.”

Source : "Helen McCrory: 'Most of the attention I get is from younger men'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.
“Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”
“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”
“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”

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