"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."

-- Bell Hooks

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“I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.”
“It's better to understand something than to memorize something.”

Source : "Neil deGrasse Tyson on Pluto, Science Groupies, and Killing Insects". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2015.
“Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.”
“Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.”
“Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real”
“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”
“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.”

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