"Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself."

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Source : "The Coming Religion". Book by Charles Fletcher Dole, 1910.

Charles Fletcher Dole

#Healthy Quotes #Normal Quotes

“'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.”
“I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.”

Source : "The Life and Times of Glenn Gould". Documentary, March 13, 1998.
“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”
“The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.”
“Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.”
“I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.”
“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

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