"Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation."

-- John Stuart Mill

#Character Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Plenty of people who are 38 have run really well in the marathon.”
“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

Source : Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media
“Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.”
“the possession of power brings on madness.”
“Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause â€œthe West is the best.â€ And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.”
“Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.”
“This is one of the innovatorâ€™s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.”
“Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.”

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