"The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death."

-- Ernest Renan

#Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes

“Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.”
“Just as thought experiments can't show that vitalism is true (or that it is false), they also can't show that dualism is true (or that it is false).”
“physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.”

Source : David Bentley Hart (2013). “The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss”, p.71, Yale University Press
“I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”
“Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.”
“An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.”
“We look forward, from what we heard from President-elect Trump, a clear vision related to the conditions and the challenges in the Middle East. And there's a great deal of parallelity in that vision related to how we can eradicate terrorism, how we can regain stability in the region.”
“Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.”

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