"I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling."

-- Woody Allen

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“To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.”
“I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.”
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.”
“I am a political person, though not with a big P.”
“Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.”
“There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.”
“If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.”

Source : Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.
“You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.”

Source : Christopher Hampton (1997). “Plays: Total eclipse [u.a.] - 1. publ”

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