"An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it.""

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Source : "Burnet's history of my own time". Book by by Gilbert Burnet, vol. i, p. 175, 1833.

Gilbert Burnet

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Anecdotes Quotes

“With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.”
“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”
“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”

Source : "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".
“One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.”
“Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.”
“Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.”
“We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.”

Source : "Prince of the Ghetto". Book by M. Samuel, 1948.

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