"Don't confuse facts with reality."

-- Robert Ballard

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“You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.”
“While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.”
“The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.”

Source : Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
“It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.10, Vintage
“My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.”
“Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.”

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