"...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Dog Quotes #People Quotes #Affliction Quotes

“The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.”
“Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...”
“Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he has learned something no other person in the world has ever known before him. â€¦ I have been lucky enough to be included in such an event.”
“Growth only really comes at the point of resisÂtance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurtsâ€¦pushing our limÂits is a musÂcle that can be culÂtiÂvated like any otherâ€“incrementally”

Source : "Learning about Learning". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, sharpbrains.com. January 21, 2009.
“Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.”
“I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.”
“Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.”

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