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“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
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“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”
Source : Bart D. Ehrman (2011). “Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are”, p.4, Harper Collins
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“It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.”
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“I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.”
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“There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.”
Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from May 28, 2014
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“The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.”
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“In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.”
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“I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.”
Source : "Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2008.