"Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script."

-- Mads Mikkelsen

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“I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.”
“Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.”
“What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.”
“The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.”

Source : Linus Pauling (1964). “Linus Pauling on Science and Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture”
“Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.”

Source : "Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism". iheu.org. July 14, 2006.
“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan
“The muffled drum's sad roll has beat; The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet; The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground; Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round; The bivouac of the dead.”
“... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.”

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