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“I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.”
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“When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.”
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“So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.”
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“Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it...”
Source : Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213
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“Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”
Source : Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation
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“If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.”
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“It makes no sense for us to consider going back there and getting involved in what truly is a religious civil war. What real difference would (air strikes) make on the ground? And secondly, is it in the best interests of the United States to do that? I would say that those questions are not being answered in a compelling way that would cause me to support that.”
Source : "Gabbard: Back to Iraq 'makes no sense'" by Jonathan Topaz, www.politico.com. June 13, 2014. 
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“You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?”
Source : "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, (ABC), October 15, 1998.
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“Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.”
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“Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight.”
Source : Hans von Seeckt (1930). “Thoughts of a Soldier”
