"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron."

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Source : Spider Robinson (1996). “Deathkiller”, Baen Books

Spider Robinson

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“Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.”
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
“Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.”
“I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.”
“One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.”
“The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.”

Source : "All the right moves". Interview with Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.
“Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.”
“My body holds on to every part of every, you know, calorie that there is out there.”

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