"Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma."

-- Sam Harris

#Religious Quotes #Atheist Quotes #People Quotes

“The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.”

Source : Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (1998). “Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom”, Harpercollins
“They say that vegetable food is not sufficiently nutritious. But chemistry proves the contrary. So does physiology. So does experience....And again: the largest and strongest animals in the world are those which eat no flesh-food of any kind - the elephant and the rhinoceros.”
“That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.”
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
“We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.”
“Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.”
“If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.”
“I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.”

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