"Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Giving Quotes #Nonsense Quotes #Distraction Quotes

“Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.”
“I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.”
“I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.”
“Lets embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.”
“I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.”

Source : "Cult heroes: Helen Reddy, the 'queen of housewife pop' with a secret dark side" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2016.
“Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.”

Source : "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension". Book by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1977.
“Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.”
“A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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