Quote by David Mamet
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacit

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. – David Mamet

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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. – David Mamet

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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. – David Mamet

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Family
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You know, young actors say all the time, Should I use my own life experience? And my response is, What choice do you have? – David Mamet

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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. – Daisy Ashford

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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People dont talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because its not an incredibly safe place to do it. – Zachary Levi

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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. – Peter Jennings

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West

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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me — with such a one I am in love. – Bhagavad Gita

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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