"One can never ask anyone to change a feeling."

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Susan Sontag

#Feelings Quotes

“The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 133, 1949.
“There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.”
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”

Source : Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.”
“Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!”
“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”

Source : "God is not the puppet master" by Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2005.
“Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.”
“I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.”

Source : "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.

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