"Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam."

-- Alan Blinder

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“Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.”

Source : James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”
“I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.”
“Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.”
“I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.”
“Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.”

Source : "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.
“As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.”
“I challenge anyone to tell me that there isnâ€™t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldnâ€™t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.”

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