"Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty."

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

#Religious Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, 'Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road' (Hab. 3:19).”
“When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.”
“I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.”
“The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.”
“Why do you like books so much?â€ he asked. Miles answered without taking his face away from the window. â€œYou never know what youâ€™ll learn when you open one. And if itâ€™s a story, you sort of fall into it. Then you live there for a while, instead of, you know, living here.”
“If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?”
“Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.”

Source : "Under a Thatched Roof".
“It's not difficult to move forward when you have nothing to lose. Right? At the time, I had nothing to lose. So, even when people were trying to degrade me, I couldn't let them take the only thing I had, which was my dream. I had to move forward and, thank God, I kept trying.”

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