"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences."

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Source : Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

Steve Allen

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“I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.”
“God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.507
“Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.”
“Itâ€™s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasnâ€™t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When youâ€™re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.”
“We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.”
“Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.”
“When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.”
“Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.”

Source : John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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