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“There can never be surprises in logic.”
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“You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.”
Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Feb 17, 2017
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“I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.”
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“Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.”
Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press
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“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.”
Source : "Toni Morrison Breaks Down The Reality Of Race On The Colbert Report" by Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.
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“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”
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“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Abide With Me”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
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“As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.”