"This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest."

-- Desmond Morris

#Powerful Quotes #Self Quotes #Afterlife Quotes

“No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.”
“I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.”
“The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.”
“For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.”
“Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.”
“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“I'm a good skin, natural makeup kind of gal.”

Source : "Face Time | Lela Rose". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 31, 2011.
“Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.”

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