"And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Life Quotes #Eye Quotes #Stones Quotes

“What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.”
“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”
“Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to do anything for these 20 million people because they were outside the system. Now they're inside the system. Taking away their health care imposes all kind of political pain. We don't know the outcome, but every passing day it show how difficult it is for Trump to deprive them of what they now have.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?”
“Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit.”
“Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.”
“A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.”
“If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.”

Source : Sam Rayburn (1978). “"Speak, Mister Speaker"”

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