"If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it."

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Source : "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

Roger Penrose

#Motherhood Quotes #World Quotes #Morality Quotes

“These big Internationals, they don't let you down”
“Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.”
“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?”
“The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.”
“...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.”
“Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.”
“Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.15
“It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.”

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