"I don't like the glamour. I just like the game."

-- Ben Hogan

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“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.”
“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”
“The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.”
“I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.”
“Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.”
“Consecration is not the act of our feelings but of our WILL.”
“Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The essence of security: reflections in office”
“Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.”

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