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“There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.”
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“I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.”
Source : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016. 
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“Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.”
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“Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.”
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“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
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“How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.”
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“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
Source : H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.76, Knopf
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“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”
Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin
