"Heresy makes for progress."

-- Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

#Progress Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Heresy Quotes

“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”

Source : Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”
“I love to work with people and do what I love.”
“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”
“This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going to add [the] before the word sport since I thought was either a typo or a problem translating what she said, but then I thought it made sense without it too , so I left it as is. Just know that that's not a typo on my part.”
“Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.”
“If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.”
“I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me.”
“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions.”

Source : "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.

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