"The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value. ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage."

-- Peter Schwartz

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“Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.”
“We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed.”
“The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.”

Source : "Dracula". Play by John L. Balderston, 1924.
“When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.”
“While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.”
“Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.”

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“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”
“Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.”

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