"When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#Reason Quotes #Heard Quotes #Presumption Quotes

“There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.”
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “The quotable Robert F. Kennedy”
“The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.”

Source : Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.
“Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.”
“You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.”
“God is always at work around you.”
“Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.”
“Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.”

Source : Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.57, Penguin

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