"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Truth Quotes #May Quotes #Trust In God Quotes

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”
“Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers, the imagination has been used to diagnose disease.”
“In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants...”
“Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.”
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”
“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.”

Source : Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.”
“Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?”

Source : Charles Francis Potter, Mrs Clara (Cook). Potter (1930). “Hvmanism: A New Religion”

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