"When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars."

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Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

Haniel Long

#Stars Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.”
“In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.”

Source : "Q&A with game creator Curt Schilling". Interview with Mike Snider, www.usatoday.com. February 7, 2012.
“Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.”
“Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.”
“You can laugh your way into hell but not out.”
“I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.”
“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Drummond". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.”

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