"Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence."

-- Joseph B. Wirthlin

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“I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.”
“Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.”
“There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.”
“If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's been dead a few hundred years. And at the same time, I wouldn't say that I actually, from a political standpoint, like many of his ideas. It just happened to be the core of a lot of my own beliefs of trying to modify my body and live indefinitely. What really applies is an evolutionary instinct to become a better entity altogether.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.”
“Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.”
“The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.407, Macmillan
“Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.”

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