"Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Religion Quotes #Events Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.”
“Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.”
“I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,”
“Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.”

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“The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.41, New York Review of Books
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”
“I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.”

Source : Letter to Jane Pierce, March 3, 1863.
“For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.”

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