"I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one."

-- Helen H. Gardener

#Atheism Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes

“In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.”
“If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?”
“Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.”
“A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.”
“Beyond Bookchinâ€, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; â€œWe are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they donâ€™t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.”
“Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.”
“That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.”

Source : "In ‘Salvage the Bones,’ Jesmyn Ward Tells Personal Story of Hurricane Katrina". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 26, 2011.
“The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.”

Source : John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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