"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."

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Source : graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

Leo Tolstoy

#Honesty Quotes #Fear Quotes #Independent Quotes

“We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.”
“During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.”
“....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”
“A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future”

Source : "Installation address: Unleashing our most ambitious imaginings". Public Speech, Cambridge, www.harvard.edu. October 12, 2007.
“...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.”
“It's hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I've done, but I know that I did it.”
“In that most burdensome moment of all human history, with blood appearing at every pore and an anguished cry upon His lips, Christ sought Him whom He had always soughtâ€”His Father. â€œAbba,â€ He cried, â€œPapa,â€ or from the lips of a younger child, â€œDaddy.â€ This is such a personal moment it almost seems a sacrilege to cite it. A Son in unrelieved pain, a Father His only true source of strength, both of them staying the course, making it through the nightâ€”together.”
“The [budget] deficit isn`t the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.”

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