"When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is."

-- Laurence Overmire

#Different Quotes #Looks Quotes #Persons Quotes

“In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.”
“There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.”
“O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.”
“What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around claiming that our "God made the heaven and the earth," it is not unreasonable to expect us to know something about what that heaven and earth actually are.”
“We should create law based on the God of the Bible,”

Source : "American Atheists Hit Republicans With ‘Go Godless’ Billboards, Correct Sarah Palin Misquote" By Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“The future is a monotonous instrument”

Source : Francis Picabia (2007). “I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation”, Mit Press

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