"I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it."

-- Patrick O'Brian

#Exercise Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?”
“We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.”
“I've got wonderful people I get to work with, and I'm trying to focus on that, instead of worrying about, Aw, who doesn't want to work with me? You focus on the ones who do.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.”
“Every battalion has its marching songs.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.32, Read Books Ltd
“What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.”
“Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.”

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