"I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else."

-- Felix Baumgartner

#Alive Quotes #Lucky Quotes #Done Quotes

“If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.”
“All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.179
“You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.”
“I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.”
“It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.”
“What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.”
“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”

Source : Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”
“Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.”

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