"I'm a pretty serious Independent."

-- Tommy Franks

#Independent Quotes #Serious Quotes

“No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.”
“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.”

Source : Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press
“I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.”
“In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.”
“You cannot pray them out of hell.”
“The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.”
“God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when we contemplate his immense knowledge and his knowing look which the secrets of the heart cannot evade.”
“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.”

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