"Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil."

-- Lord Acton

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“Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.”
“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than touristsâ€”seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
“Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer.”
“I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.”

Source : "There's something about Sam" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
“I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.”
“All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”
“Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.”
“all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to believe that without my personal renderings of all those games he missed while he was at work, he would be unable to follow our team in the only proper way a team should be followed, day by day, inning by inning. In other words, without me, his love for baseball would be forever incomplete.”

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