"A belief is not true simply because it is useful."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Atheism Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.”
“The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.”
“Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.”

Source : "We'll hunt down the tax avoiders" by Vince Cable, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.
“The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapseâ€”one that might be big enough to cause a recession in the U.S. economyâ€”while not fully allayed have diminished. Moreover, while the future for housing activity remains uncertain, I think there is a reasonable chance that housing is in the process of stabilizing, which would mean that it would put a considerably smaller drag on the economy going forward.”
“This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long”

Source : "Fictional character: Laura Jesson". "Brief Encounter", www.imdb.com. 1945.
“North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms has signed a deal with Random House to write his memoirs. Scholars will no doubt benefit from the reflections of a man who was wrong on every major issue for 40 years. Helms' aides say the proceeds from the book will be donated to the non-profit Jesse Helms Center where they apparently have more experience burning than publishing them.”
“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.”
“The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.”

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