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When You Reach Your Sixties, You Have To Decide Whether You're Going To Be A Sot Or An Ascetic. In Other Words If You Want To Go On Working After You're Sixty, Some Degree Of Asceticism Is Inevitable.

The Dogmatism Of Science Has Become A New Orthodoxy, Disseminated By The Media And A State Educational System With A Thoroughness And Subtlety Far Exceeding Anything Of The Kind Achieved By The Inquisition; To The Point That To Believe Today In A Miraculous Happening Like The Virgin Birth Is To Appear A Kind Of Imbecile.

Future Historians Will Surely See Us As Having Created In The Media A Frankenstein Monster Whom No One Knows How To Control Ordirect, And Marvelthat Weshould Have So Meekly Subjected Ourselves To Its Destructive And Often Malign Influence.

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People Say That The Bible Is A Boring Book...but They Don't Say That About Shakespeare, Because The People Who Teach Shakespeare Are Zealous For Shakespeare.