"Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Death Quotes #Religious Quotes #Pride Quotes

“I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe.”
“While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution â€“ so one theory goes â€“ this faculty soon enough became a seditious agent working against us â€¦ we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see â€¦ Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are â€“ hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones”
“Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.”
“Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.”
“You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.”

Source : "Review Essay on Levels of Life” by Julian Barnes" by Robert D. Stolorow, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2014.
“In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.”
“But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.”
“The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.”

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