"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Olympia Dukakis

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”
“My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.”
“Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.”

Source : "How should US respond to Boko Haram? Will select committee get to the bottom of Benghazi?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2014.
“I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.”
“Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”

Source : Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”
“There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”
“I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.”
“Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.”

Source : "From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book by Jean van Heijenoort, 1967.

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