"Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo."

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Source : "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

Jay Griffiths

#Heretic Quotes

“It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.”
“Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.”
“You either control your mind or it controls you.”
“When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!”
“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.”
“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.29, Penguin
“I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.”
“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

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