"Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings."

-- Dalai Lama

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“The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?”
“What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We should not be less than what we are.”
“When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.”

Source : John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”
“You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous about it falling to the floor should you nod off. You can spill coffee on it. You can sit on it. You can put it down on a table, open to the page you're reading, and when you pick it up a few days later it will still be exactly as you left it. You never have to be concerned about plugging a book into an outlet or having its battery die.”
“As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.”
“I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.”
“Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?”

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