"Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can."

-- Pete Seeger

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“When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets have repeatedly told us, that the fruits of the gospel are the only objectives worthy of life's full efforts. Their possessor obtains true wealth - wealth in the Lord's view of values. We need constantly to deepen our understandings and sharpen our realization of what the fruits of the gospel are. The Lord has defined them as . . . peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.”
“Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century.”

Source : Joseph McCabe “Great Ideas Made Simple”
“The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.”
“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
“If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.”
“There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.”
“The 'regular' school of medicine, as a body, has ignored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the fallacy of their favorite theories and practices and because it reveals unmistakably the direful results of chronic drug poisoning and ill-advised operations.”

Source : Henry Lindlahr (1974). “Natural Therapeutics: Iridiagnosis and Other Diagnostic Methods”, p.12, Health Research Books
“I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.”

Source : "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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