"It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection."

-- Roger Kimball

#Attitude Quotes #Practice Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.”

Source : "VIDEO: Herman Cain says he'd 'be dead' under 'ObamaCare'" by Geneva Sands, thehill.com. August 19, 2011.
“Every minute was more exciting than the next.”
“I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.”
“Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.”

Source : Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.
“Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and complete body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.”

Source : "The Four Books of Architecture".
“Bodybuilding is 80% nutrition!”
“. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.”
“Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.”

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