"Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent."

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Richard Dawkins

#Suffering Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Kind Quotes

“If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!”
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.”
“I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
“I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.58, Everyman's Library
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

Source : Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins
“I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.”
“I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.”

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