"I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago."

-- Al Jarreau

#Long Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Gone Quotes

“All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.”
“Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.”
“Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.”
“If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.”
“A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.”

Source : Thomas Kibble Hervey (1849). “The devil's progress: A poem”, p.27
“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.”
“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an actâ€¦ a doing rather than a being.”
“It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer”

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