"The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of."

-- Elihu Palmer

#Common Sense Quotes #Religion Quotes #Obscurity Quotes

“You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life”
“The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.”
“Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.”
“Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.”
“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”

Source : "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.
“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”
“Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?”
“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.”

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