"You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe."

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Source : "Choice is rarely black and white" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2010.

Julian Baggini

#Believe Quotes #Choices Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.358
“There's hostility to lying, and there should be.”
“The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.”
“Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.”
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.”
“America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.”

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