"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

-- Mark Twain

#Religious Quotes #Atheist Quotes #People Quotes

“Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.”
“Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!”
“My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.”
“Ever since the Federal reserve was born, (in 1913) we have been living under a lie.”
“Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.”
“If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.”
“You can support the troops but not the president.”

Source : "War and Peace: Falling Through the Partisan Looking Glass" by Lyn Davis Lear, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2005.
“Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.”

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