"... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey."

-- Harriot Kezia Hunt

#Religious Quotes #Flower Quotes #Animal Quotes

“We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.”

Source : "Australia pledges help, support" by Grant Holloway, cnn.com. September 11, 2001.
“Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”
“Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.”
“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”
“I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.”
“Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.”

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