"People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now."

-- John Fowles

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“My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.”
“As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.”

Source : Caldwell B. Esselstyn (2007). “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure”, p.10, Penguin
“My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.”
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.”

Source : "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.
“Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.”
“The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency”
“Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.”
“Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.”

Source : Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.236

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