"Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“When we shot "Stargate," he [ Jaye Davidson] came up to me at one point and said, "I don't like shooting movies," and I said, "Why?" "Too many people stare at me." I said, "Then you're totally in the wrong business."”

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“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”

Source : Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books
“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

Source : René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”
“Sometimes when you are standing still and itâ€™s snowing, you think that you hear music. You canâ€™t tell where itâ€™s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we canâ€™t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.”
“The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.”
“God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.”
“The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.”
“Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.”

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