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Joseph Cook

"What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber."

Source : Joseph Cook (1881). “Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent”

Joseph Cook

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“The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.”
“If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.”
“If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character.”
“We're in a society, I think, where everyone thinks it's so cool to work, it's so cool to be online, so cool to be super busy. I think it's super cool not to be busy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.”
“We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.”
“One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.44, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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