"No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

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“It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.”
“God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to..." And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”
“I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.”
“Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.”
“If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.”

Source : "A Tolstoy Speaks, And Russia Listens". Interview with Celestine Bohlen, www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2003.
“You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.”
“In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.”
“People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.”

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