"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

-- Carl Sagan

#Atheist Quotes #Science Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books
“There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.”

Source : Leonard Michaels (2008). “The Collected Stories”, p.404, Macmillan
“I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.”

Source : "This much I know: Emily Watson". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.
“If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.”
“There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.”
“..Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, (is) the champion of the scientific doctrine of freedom of research, which has suffered in recent years through the falsity of certain politico-physician leaders of the AMA, who faked reports, suppressed honest information, brutally slugged the opposition, both physically and through pressures, used to prevent the truth about Krebiozen reaching the American people.”
“Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.”
“If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.”

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