"There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain."

-- John Powell

#Wisdom Quotes #Pain Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.”
“With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.”
“A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.”
“If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.”
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.”
“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.”

Source : "‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.
“On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.”

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