"Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I'm sure he's a talented man."

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Source : 'The Talented Man'

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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“I got a call one morning from Oran Hesterman, who was the president of the Fair Food Foundation, saying that the Fair Food Foundation was shutting down effectively as of that day, because they'd been caught up in the Madoff scandal. It affected me because the fellowship that I had was actually funded in part by the Fair Food Foundation. That meant that my fellowship was pretty much null and void.”
“It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.”
“If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.”
“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.”
“Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.”
“I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.”

Source : "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Papi Blez, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.
“Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline.”
“Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.”

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