"The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Religious Quotes #Blood Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.”
“The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.”
“If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.”
“If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.”
“In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.”
“I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.”
“Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.”
“Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.243

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