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> [Our rational, realistic goals for 'Better Call Saul' were simply that it wouldn't suck, and it wouldn't embarrass us. It didn't rise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vince-gilligan/our-rational-realistic-goals-for-better-call-saul-were-simply-that-it/)

[Vince Gilligan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vince-gilligan/)

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> [ Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that \[during wartime\] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/surely-no-rational-or-realistic-person-will-discount-the-possibility/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [“So much of what we imagine to be the testimony of reason or the clear and unequivocal evidence of our senses is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bentley-hart/so-much-of-what-we-imagine-to-be-the-testimony-of-reason-or-the-clear/)

[David Bentley Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bentley-hart/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/david-bentley-hart-4691_habits_so-much-of-what-we-imagine-to-be-the-tes_578377.jpg)

> [“To believe in only the practical, the rational, the realistic was a kind of glamour as well. But he couldn't enjoy the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-lavalle/to-believe-in-only-the-practical-the-rational-the-realistic-was-a/)

[Victor LaValle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-lavalle/)

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