"William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”
“Audiences are not easily fooled, but they are easily confused.”
“The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity rising from the stinking junkyard of American public life. At last, some official body has come to a decision about Clinton's conduct that is untainted by politics, cowardice or cynicism.”
“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
“The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.”
“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.”
“If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.”
“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.31, Profile Books

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