"There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it."

-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Religion Quotes #Contention Quotes

“The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.”
“The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.”
“We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.”
“I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.”

Source : "Fictional character: Claire Fisher". TV Series "Six Feet Under" ("An Open Book", 2001), www.imdb.com. (2001–2005).
“I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.”
“Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”
“I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them.”
“How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.68, M. Evans

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