"Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized sacred Scripture. Witches are today being burned in South Africa.... The worldwide TM [Transcendental Meditation] organization has an estimated valuation of $3 billion. For a fee, they promise to make you invisible, to enable you to fly."

-- Carl Sagan

#Atheist Quotes #War Quotes #Japan Quotes

“The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart.”

Source : Frederick Peterson (1893). “In the Shade of Ygdrasil”
“I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.”
“My background is in health care.”
“I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.”
“In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.”
“In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?”
“Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.”
“It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.”

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