"In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable."

-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#Church Quotes #Partnership Quotes #States Quotes

“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”
“That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better”
“I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.”
“Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.”
“... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.”
“Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.”

Source : Song: Unwritten, Album: Unwritten, 2004
“Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.”

Source : "Perfect Gifts, According to Phoebe Cates". abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2006.
“As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajÃ±a, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.”

Source : Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.26, MIT Press

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