"Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it."

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Fareed Zakaria

#Doe Quotes #World Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
“Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?”
“All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.”
“All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.”

Source : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.29, Baker Academic
“Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.”
“Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

Source : William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press
“Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.”

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