"Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself."

-- Alexandra David-Neel

#Idols Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.”

Source : "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
“There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”
“I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.”
“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
“What makes me cry? Anything bad related to my kids. The world.”
“None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.”
“I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter?”

Source : "Guns in cockpit bill passes the Senate / Measure would let pilots volunteer to be deputized" by Matthew L. Wald, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2002.

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