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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what i...more

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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

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What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.

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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why...more

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I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

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GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained withi...more

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Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet...more

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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a littl...more

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Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not ...more