"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."

-- Jim Harrison

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“Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.”

Source : Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.21, University of Chicago Press
“... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!”
“I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.”
“Character and fate are two words for the same thing”
“I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.”
“Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.”

Source : Christian Wiman (2013). “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer”, p.51, Macmillan
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”
“Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points to that Cross as the unreserved manifestation of love so inconceivably infinite as to answer every challenge and silence all doubt for ever. And that Cross is not merely the public proof of what God has accomplished; it is the earnest of all that He has promised.”

Source : Robert Anderson (2007). “The Silence of God”, p.150, Cosimo, Inc.

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