"Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment."

-- Iain Pears

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“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.”
“There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.”
“I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.”
“Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?”
“You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.”
“I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.”
“Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate”

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