"Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth."

-- James Heckman

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“Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring”
“I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have no idea how I ended up at this fiberglass table with you losers.”
“Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.”
“Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.”
“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”
“The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.”

Source : "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.
“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.”
“Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.”

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