"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."

-- Hugh Mackay

#Ideas Quotes #Choices Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”
“If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.”
“Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.”
“I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.”
“Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.”
“Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.”
“Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it”

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