"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

-- Thomas Szasz

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“Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love”
“The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.”
“To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.”
“They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'Ã©tat, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships. The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.”
“we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.”
“It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.”
“Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.”
“The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.”

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