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"Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit."
"Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity."
"In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day"
"In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education."
"Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes."
"The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche."
"Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life."
"I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people."
"So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed"
"If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount."
"We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary."
"We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place."
"You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise."
"This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."
"If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool."
"With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos."
"The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear."
"The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world."
"The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse."
"The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news."
