"A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul."

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Paul Bloom

#God Quotes #Men Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.”
“People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.”
“From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.”
“I have a dark sense of humor.”
“I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.”
“I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.”
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.”
“It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”

Source : Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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