"Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second."

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Source : John C. Lennox (2009). “God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”, p.210, Lion Books

John Lennox

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“It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.”
“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”
“How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!”

Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “Thelma: A Norwegian Princess”, p.161, The Floating Press
“The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.”
“No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.”
“Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.”
“In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.”
“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.”

Source : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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