"General principles should not be based on exceptional cases."

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Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.145, Macmillan

Robert J. Sawyer

#Principles Quotes #Cases Quotes #Should Quotes

“As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?”
“No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.”
“This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.”
“Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.”
“What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.”
“You've worked hard all your life. You've paid Medicare taxes for almost 30 years. But under the Republican plan, Medicare won't be there for you. Instead of Medicare as it exists now, under the Republican plan you'll get a voucher that will pay as little as half your Medicare costs when you turn 65â€”and as little as a quarter in your 80s. And all so that millionaires and billionaires can have a huge tax cut.”

Source : "The Coming Democratic Attack Barrage". www.thedailybeast.com. August 11, 2012.
“What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.”

Source : Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “The quotable Robert F. Kennedy”
“And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.”

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