"Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science."

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Source : Thomas Starr King (1924). “Socrates: An Oration”

Thomas Starr King

#Life Quotes #Giving Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.”
“From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.”
“Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.”
“I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and Palestine. But I'm not doing it with the kind of intensity I was before and I'm not seeking out the front line and the kind danger that comes with being at the edge of the war the way I used to.”
“It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.”
“When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.”
“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

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