"Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act."

-- Witold Gombrowicz

#Virtue Quotes #Commit Quotes #Fatherland Quotes

“No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.”
“Youâ€™re the reason I breathe”
“The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”
“In the particular is contained the universal.”
“But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is an absolute-and they equate that absolute with their mythic god, and they stuff this god with all the characteristics that promote their own egoic inclinations, starting with the fact that if you don't believe in this particular god, you fry in hell forever, which is not exactly a generous view of Spirit.”
“Military police is very timely for our army.”
“Should Christians govern and are Christians the only ones who are truly qualified to govern, and the answer is, of course, Yes.”
“When we come to Christ, weâ€™re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.”

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