"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically."

-- Geoffrey Rush

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“The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'oÃ¹ dÃ©coulent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identitÃ©, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensÃ©e; il en dÃ©coule les normes logiques qui rÃ©gissent la pensÃ©e dans le domaine de la science.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.”
“I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic forms in them and to adapt them to the colors of the palette.”
“I can't, myself determine what offends another person.”
“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”
“My team is the best, the platoon is good, the companyï»¿ is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.”
“We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution”
“Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.”

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