"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."

-- Edward Bond

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“Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.”
“The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.”
“Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.”
“For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.”
“My sweat smells like peanut-butter.”
“Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.”
“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.”

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