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Paddy Chayefsky

"It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity."

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”

Paddy Chayefsky

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“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.”
“Gintoki: Listen, I donâ€™t care what you guys do around the universe. This is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country! Bastards who come in and try to mess with my thingsâ€¦whether it be a general, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteoriteâ€¦Iâ€™ll destroy them!”
“You love me,â€ he said. â€œThatâ€™s all I need to know.â€ â€œYou always say the right thing,â€ Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. â€œSometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.”
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
“Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.”
“I used to believe having a good memory meant being able to remember everything in perfect detail. Now I believe having a good memory means being able to selectively forget. It's not what I'll remember, it's what I'll forget that matters.”
“The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.”
“I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.”

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