"The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment."

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Mark Shields

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“The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.”
“It's a certain kind of human compact that obviously you lose as soon as there is a screen and a camera there, so I think we'll always have theater. I think theater will always be a powerful force because we need that human touch, particularly as we spend more and more time with machines, cell phones, computers we start to lose our humanity.”

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“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”
“Reality is just a collective hunch.”
“That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.”
“Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”
“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”
“Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.”

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