"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."

-- Susan Sontag

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“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.”
“Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ...”
“He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.”
“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”
“Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.”
“Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.”

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“They weren't true stories; they were better than that.”
“In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.”

Source : Song: Hey Love

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