"They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too."

-- Robert Cormier

“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasonsâ€“that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.”
“To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.”

Source : James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books
“Don't give up on each other.”
“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost”
“That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.”
“Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.”

Source : "A Huge Water Geyser on Saturn’s Moon Helps Make the Rings, and a Bonus Eclipse From Mars". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. September 17, 2012.
“People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.”

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