"It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life."

-- G. H. Hardy

#War Quotes #Average Quotes #Evil Quotes

“I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.
“The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.”
“Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.”

Source : "We're Talking To You, Miss!". Mohican Press interview, www.mohicanpress.com. March 25, 2005.
“No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.66, Hampton Roads Publishing
“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.”
“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”
“Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.”
“The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.”

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