"Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones."

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Ruth Hurmence Green

#Atheist Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Smart Quotes

“You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you.”
“Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.”
“The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.”
“I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.”
“If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.”
“First, we become aware of that which is Divine around us. Then we become aware of that which is Divine within us. Finally, we become aware that all is Divine, and that there is nothing else. This is the moment of our awakening.”
“People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with Al Qaeda, with Jabhat al Nusra, with Daesh. The pockets, small pockets, of other groups are usually surrounded by these various extremist groups. . . . Once they stop fighting, there is nothing for the Syrian government to hit other than the terrorist organizations.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.”

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