"The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong."

-- Mark Thomas

#Religion Quotes #Perception Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.”
“Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!”

Source : FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.284
“Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.”
“In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside”
“If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.”
“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!”

Source : "La suggestibilite". Book by Alfred Binet, p. 119-120, 1900.
“If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.”

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