"I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Atheist Quotes #Memories Quotes #Regret Quotes

“When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.”
“The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.”

Source : Lynne McTaggart (2008). “The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.”

Source : Sir Arthur Eddington (2013). “New Pathways In Science”, p.236, Read Books Ltd
“When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.”

Source : "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.
“Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.”

Source : "House Hunting in the West Bank" by Gershom Gorenberg, prospect.org. June 4, 2009.
“Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.”
“You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.”

Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.”

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