"Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming."

-- Robert Gordon Sproul

#Dream Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1997). “Home Life”
“From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
“I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

Source : "The trouble with atheists: a defence of faith" by Francis Spufford, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
“I've even had people tell me that I must not be a Christian because I think climate change is real. But you know, there's nothing in the Bible that says that. The sad truth is that our thought leaders - many of them in the conservative media and politics - are the ones telling us this isn't real, and we are believing them.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.”

Source : "David Oyelowo creates a tortured soul in HBO's 'Nightingale'". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 28, 2015.
“But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.
“Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.”

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