"We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love."

-- Richard Mitchell

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“I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.”
“Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.”
“Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.”
“This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.”

Source : "Reports from the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science". "Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. February 25, 2006.
“I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.”
“I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.”
“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”
“The best fights are the ones we avoid.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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