"I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion."

-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Spiritual Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“I'm a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. If the alternative explanation has to be pounded into shape before it fits the mould of our experience, it seems to me that it's unlikely to be true.”
“We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.”

Source : Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.61, University of Chicago Press
“I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 148), 1986.
“I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material.”
“I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.”

Source : "Michelle Pfeiffer: Into The Mind Of Michelle". Movieline Interview, movieline.com. April 1, 2002.
“Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.”

Source : "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.
“The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.”
“The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.”

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