"I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone."

-- Celia Johnson

#Writing Quotes #Affair Quotes #Autobiography Quotes

“Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction. Owen believed in extinction but not evolution. Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction. Darwin believed in evolution and extinction. All four of them believed in God.”
“Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act”
“Thereâ€™s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
“She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.”
“In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.”

Source : "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle/ Religion". Comedy, April 2009.
“Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.”
“The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.”
“Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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