"Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point."

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Source : Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.251

Ralph Cudworth

#Atheist Quotes #Dancing Quotes #May Quotes

“Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.”
“All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.”
“Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.”
“Make the best of an emergency.”

Source : Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent (2000). “John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist”, p.219, Yale University Press
“I dont really want to say need because to me--an aggressive, liberated woman--need sounds too pathetic. But maybe Im wrong. Maybe need and want sometimes go together. Maybe I do need and want a man.”
“A lot of people do things out of fear. A lot of people make choices [based on thinking] they wonâ€™t have a career in five years. I know where I am, I know what I do is worth something and does not have an expiration date on it. Iâ€™m not making choices â€” in any capacity of my life, with any kind of endorsement, with any kind of product â€” out of fear.”
“Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.”
“Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.”

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