"You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place."

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Source : Peter Van Inwagen (1998). “The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics”

Peter van Inwagen

#Believe Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.”
“Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.”
“I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.. I didn't see it last night when I watched the Emmys.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo Slams the Emmys As 'Dated, Embarrassing'" by Emma Koonse, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.
“Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.”
“If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.”
“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
“The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.”
“I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2002). “Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth”

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