"Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution."

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Source : "Yesterday in the Pulpit". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1882.

Robert Collyer

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“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.”
“I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.”
“Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.”
“The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.”
“Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.”
“Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.”
“Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.”
“Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.”

Source : Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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