"It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men."

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Rodney Stark

#Religious Quotes #Men Quotes #Risk Quotes

“For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.”
“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”
“Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.”

Source : Fred Alan Wolf (2002). “Matter Into Feeling: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit”, p.116, Red Wheel/Weiser
“[Exorcist ] is given all of us a great opportunity to show something new on network TV, in terms of the quality of it. It feels much bigger than a network show.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”

Source : Joint Press Conference with President Obama and Prime Minister Najib of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 27, 2014.
“Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.”

Source : Wassily Leontief (1966). “Essays in Economics: Theories, Theorizing, Facts, and Policies”, p.10, Transaction Publishers
“It's fun wandering around other people's minds.”

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