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There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome and he coined the term "spaceship earth" and that's pretty much the extent of what people who even have heard of him know. And I'm struck by how many people have not heard of him at all.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage.

Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.