"I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain."

-- Audre Lorde

#Pain Quotes #Rain Quotes #Survival Quotes

“Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.
“I remember Robin [Williams] walked up to me after the last take and said, "Thanks boss! We nailed it!" That will probably be one of the best moments of my life.”
“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”
“Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the â€œchance-of-the-gaps fallacy.â€ Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.”
“I think we need a huge dose of love.”
“We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.”

Source : "Anything Beyond The Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2010.
“I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.”

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