"The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be."

-- Edwin Land

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“Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.”

Source : Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.19, Vintage
“I kind of feel that once we're back in London and back in regular life, I just sort of get the bus and very occasionally this whole other role [ in Chronicels of Narnia] slips into my home life. Randomly people recognise me but even then it's very minor. It's not as if my life has been turned on its head and I can't walk down the street unless I'm wearing dark sunglasses and a ninja kit.”
“... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.”
“No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'”
“Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And thatâ€™s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.”
“Andy Kindler. Andy's set - somehow he slayed that night. But something weird about it that wasn't translating for the CD. I don't know what it was. But we listened to it and it wasn't the greatest audio recording - I mean, the quality of it was good. But we didn't want to put it on the record because it doesn't represent what Andy does.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.”

Source : "Does being a jerk work?" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.
“[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.”

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