"Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin."

-- William Robertson Smith

#Strong Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California”

Source : Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.
“My road trips have been to Vegas, but you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”
“I'm a complete and utter busker.”
“Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.”
“Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.”
“I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.”
“Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.”
“And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.”

Source : Mary Kay Andrews (2011). “Summer Rental: A Novel”, p.350, Macmillan

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