"God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three."

-- J. L. Mackie

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“To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.”
“I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.”
“I started at Pixar the month Monsters Inc. came out.”

Source : "'Monsters University' Director Dan Scanlon on the Making of a Monstrous Pixar Prequel". Interview with Philip Yu, yahoo.com. April 25, 2013.
“I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start”
“Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.”

Source : Andrew Linzey (2013). “Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics”, p.164, Oxford University Press
“I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.”
“Coincidence is a wonderful thing.”
“The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.”

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