"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Atheist Quotes

“I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.”
“I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.”

Source : "Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2010.
“Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]”
“age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.”
“No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.”
“I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.”
“A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.442, Harvard University Press

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