"To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever."

-- George Eliot

#Fear Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Substance Quotes

“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.”

Source : "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 73), 1993.
“Well, I'd say that I'm mostly drawn to people who are genuine and willing to take a step to the unknown. So when I play with these people, usually there's this sense of that 'yes, we are doing it together right at this moment without any agenda' feeling which is so exciting! It means that there is this sense of trust, that whatever I throw in the music that's happening, they will make it work and send something to work with in my direction. Hopefully they feel the same about me.”
“The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.”
“When you've finished using a car, put the ***** seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.”
“There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution”
“I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience shapes what you write and what you don't write.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“For me, it really just feels calm. When you're going fast on a downhill course, it's typically where it's wide open. I think it's kind of like driving a car. If you're going really fast and it's straight, everything seems to slow down. In general, racing downhill involves bigger turns and everything sort of slows down and you have a lot of time to think.”

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“The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.”

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