"The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship"

-- Jonathan Haidt

#Atheist Quotes #Practice Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.”

Source : Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“All the powers in the universe are already ours.”
“Nobody panics when things go â€œaccording to planâ€. Even if the plan is horrifying!”
“His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“You are not a country, Africa. You are a conceptâ€¦ You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.”
“When you give without reservation, youâ€™ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 21, 2015
“While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.”
“I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.”

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