"A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess"

-- Thomas Francis Meagher

#Flags Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“I'm a Jehovah's Witness.”
“If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.”
“He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.”
“That question is too good to spoil with an answer.”

Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.47, A&C Black
“More is learned in pain than in pleasure.”
“The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.”
“These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.”

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