"Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Men Quotes #Religion Quotes #Civilized Quotes

“We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.”
“When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades. Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering. But the ones that are . . . happen again. So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.”
“Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.”
“There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.”

Source : "Natalie Imbruglia Speaks Out Against Fur in New PETA Video" by Anne Clark, www.peta.org.uk. September 9, 2010.
“The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.”

Source : Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”
“I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.”
“He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.”
“At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.”

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