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"But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming d…"

"Sanctimonious slogans have a way of lulling well-meaning people, and at the same time providing self-seekers with means to frustrate the very controls that are most needed. Take, for example, a report…"

"What appears as disaster postponed is, in virtual reality, disaster expanded."

"Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb."

"The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt, on everyone's lips, that if Rommel had been in the British Army, he would still have been a sergeant."

"In the struggle my sympathies were not neutral. But in telling the story of those great day I have tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested insetting down the truth."

"Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality."

"I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality"

"Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them."

"Moaning and wailing have ten kinds of which nine are full of showoff and only one kind is full of reality."

"A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment."

"With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan, — mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards, — because we do no…"

"Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth."

"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, "trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?" ... "Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call…"

"History, when she adds pleasure to utility, may attract more admirers; though as long as she is possessed of that greatest of perfections, truth, she need not be anxious concerning beauty."

"Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor."

"The God-Man functions as a true 'sportsman' in his playfield, where the very enjoyment is in the sport and not in the score."

"Nonconformity...still supplies, to so great an extent, the backbone of British Liberalism."

"Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance."

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them."