Geoffrey Miller Quotes
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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Honestly, 'Battlestar' is a truly unique thing, and it's hard for anything to step up to that. There aren't often shows that are as good as that.
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What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
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It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
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Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
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Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.
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It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
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It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.
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Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
