"In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel."

-- Jonathan Sacks

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“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”
“When a person canâ€™t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
“Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you”
“Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.”

Source : FaceBook post by Quentin L Cook from Nov 17, 2014
“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”

Source : "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
“I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.”
“It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.”

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