"The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."

-- Richard Dawkins

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“Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.”
“O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils”

Source : Joseph Alleine (2000). “An Alarm to the Unconverted”, p.21, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.”

Source : "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.
“History is made by those who say no.”

Source : Jon Savage (2011). “England's Dreaming”, p.510, Faber & Faber
“I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a two dimensional character. I want more to my legacy, I guess.”

Source : "Cakes, Saint, Love, & Hip Hop". Interview with Saint, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2014.
“The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.”
“We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.”
“Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day.”

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