"Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction)."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Jesus Quotes #Voice Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.”
“Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.”
“When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.”
“I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.”
“One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.54, Princeton University Press
“I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.”
“Progress is not accomplished in one stage.”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”

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