"I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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“By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.”

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“the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.”
“It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same things in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same.”
“Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.”
“The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?”
“Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.”
“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.”
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

Source : Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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