"The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds."

-- Ellen Battelle Dietrick

#Ideas Quotes #Race Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in”
“Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.”
“I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.”
“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”
“Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.”
“Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.”
“Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.”
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”

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