"It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God."

-- Charles Darwin

#Atheist Quotes #Men Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Love. People threw that word around like carzy.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.147, Penguin
“I've always feel like it's been my place to offer an alternative.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.”
“The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.”
“Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.”
“I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".”
“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancÃ©,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
“When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!”

Source : "The Evolution Of The Spacesuit" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. October 24, 2011.

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