"You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it."

-- Oriana Fallaci

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“Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”
“If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.”
“As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train,'”

Source : "Don Cornelius is a businessman with soul", www.today.com. March 9, 2006.
“Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting, it's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in a cause that you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.”

Source : Richard J. Machowicz (2000). “Unleashing the Warrior Within: Using the 7 Principles of Combat to Achieve Your Goals”, Hyperion
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black
“The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.”
“The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.”
“Thats the joy of acting - you get to play people who are not you; you get to explore the dark, hidden sides of yourself.”

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