"People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that thereâ€™s a cure for this and an exception weâ€™ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, Iâ€™m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. Thatâ€™s why [religion] survives."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Sorry Quotes #Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.”

Source : "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Introduction (p. ix),
“I want to be a cool mom.”
“There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.”
“The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.”
“You don't manage priorities, you have them.”
“five severed fingers do not make a hand”
“The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.”
“According to USA Today, 74 percent of Americans plan to hand out candy this Halloween. Although President Obama thinks it should be just the top 1 percent.”

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