"There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them."

-- Steve Coogan

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“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”
“The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.”
“Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.”
“I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.”
“A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.”

Source : James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)
“At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States”
“There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.”
“I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.”

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