"I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts."

-- Laurence McKinley Gould

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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.”
“Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.”

Source : "Obama’s College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia'" by Wayne Allyn Root, www.theblaze.com. August 6, 2012.
“Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.”
“... the absence of theistic belief.”

Source : "A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A Book of Reference on Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, and Science". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1948.
“The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.”

Source : Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin
“Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation”
“Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.”

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