"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

-- William James

#Philosophical Quotes #Matter Quotes #Cases Quotes

“...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.14
“Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.”
“It's better to say goodbye, to move on, to end the lie.”
“The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.”

Source : "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.
“Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.”
“As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.”
“And who knew? That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert, Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven You may have every title, every big shot degree, But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem”
“You look beautiful in this dress." "And yet you're trying to take it off." "You know that look that Jessica gets when she unwraps one of her truffles?" he asked. "Like she fell into a pool of chocolate with Keanu Reeves and Hugh Jackman swimming toward her?" He looked at me, his lips quirking. "Have that fantasy often?" Heh. Who, me? "Nope. Why would I, when I have you?" "Nice recovery.”

Source : Michele Bardsley (2009). “Over My Dead Body”, p.197, Penguin

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