"Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."

-- Lewis Thomas

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“They minute people fall in love they become liars.”
“No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.”
“I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.”
“This isnâ€™t happening to you, princess,â€ Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. â€œThis is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. Youâ€™re not going to find any sympathy here.”
“I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.”

Source : Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion
“No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.”
“One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.”

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