"There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable."

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Elias Canetti

#Atheist Quotes #Grief Quotes #Fate Quotes

“The Force is within you. Force yourself.”

Source : "ABC Special Report" with Barbra Walters, March 24, 1997.
“Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)”
“My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.”
“Tennis is the loneliest sport”
“Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible.”
“All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]”
“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens menâ€™s hearts, and brings them to ruin.”
“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”

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