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Voltaire quote: "Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only..."

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

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It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. John Cusack
(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often. Alfred Marshall
Norman Lamm quote: "No religious position is loyally served by refusing to..."
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. Norman Lamm
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it. John Harvey Kellogg
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. Donna Tartt
I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own. James Carville
Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG. Fannie Flagg
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself Nick Hornby
Khalil Gibran quote: "Love provided me with a tongue and tears."
Love provided me with a tongue and tears. Khalil Gibran
Chevy Chase quote: "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."
I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not. Chevy Chase
You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck. Rick Moody
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. Allison Janney
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. Robert B. Laughlin
If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is. Jessica Lange