"The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Mother Quotes #Science Quotes #Effort Quotes

“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”
“A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.”
“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.”
“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.265, Transaction Publishers
“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!”

Source : Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 234-241), 2013.
“In order to accomplish something, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it.”
“I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate, and I became quite good at it, because I had something to prove. And more than anything, I needed to feel safe.”

Source : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.
“He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.”

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