"Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human."

-- Jared Diamond

#Discovery Quotes #Average Quotes #Gorillas Quotes

“It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more . .. I know Christ, the poor crucified One.”
“Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.135, Random House
“You can always be a little bit better.”
“I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings”
“Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.”

Source : Tony Hoagland (1998). “Donkey Gospel: Poems”, Graywolf Press
“Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.”
“This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"”
“Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.”

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