"Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself."

-- George Santayana

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“But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.”
“And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.”
“NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.”
“It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.”

Source : "Ed Boyden: The brain is like a computer, and we can fix it with nanorobots". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.
“I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.”

Source : "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.
“You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.”

Source : "Slackers". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 1, 2002.
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
“I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage”

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