"In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist.""

-- Victor Frederick Weisskopf

#Long Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.”
“We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.”
“Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?”

Source : "Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.
“What we value determines what we do.”
“He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.”
“It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.”
“If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)”
“It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.”

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