"It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited."

-- Mike Thompson

#Believe Quotes #Silence Quotes #Merit Quotes

“I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.”
“Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.”
“I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.”
“Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.”
“When you get to Heaven you won't need faith because you'll be able to see it and know it all then. You won't need hope because it's already arrived, but there'll still be love because the greatest of these is love! (1Cor.13.)”
“And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.”

Source : "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.
“The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.”
“What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.”

Source : Matthew Fox (1999). “A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice”, p.4, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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