"If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'"

-- Bertrand Russell

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“We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.”

Source : "What Would Beth Ditto Do?", www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2007.
“When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.”
“I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.”
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?”
“I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?”
“What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”

Source : Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
“Trends that can't continue, won't.”
“No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.”

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