"The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything."

-- Charles Baxter

#May Quotes #Said Quotes #Passage Of Time Quotes

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
“I believe everyone should have the same rights. They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids. Well, I've had the privilege of seeing my gay friends being parents and watching their kids grow up in a loving environment.”
“Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.”
“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”

Source : Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes "Evolution as Fact and Theory" (1983)
“What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.”
“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.”
“Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”
“Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.”

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