"When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since the results could be vouched for by their teachers, all of them of the highest character, and many of them clergymen of the Church of England."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Teacher Quotes #Character Quotes #Church Quotes

“That putt had more breaks than a government job.”
“I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.”

Source : "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.
“Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.”
“A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.”
“Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin
“It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.”

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, chapter 6 "Suffering and the Bible", p. 166, 1961.
“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing”, p.409, Hachette UK
“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”

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