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When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all about mirroring.

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Terry Eagleton

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

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Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

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What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

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Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

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