"Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children."

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Source : Charles Stross (2004). “Toast”, p.37, Wildside Press LLC

Charles Stross

#Religious Quotes #Children Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Every dimension is special.”
“You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.”
“I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com
“It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.”

Source : Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House
“When in doubt, do something.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The heart of science is measurement.”
“The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.”
“When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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