"It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell."

-- Julian Barnes

#Atheist Quotes #Men Quotes #White Quotes

“I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.”
“Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.”
“And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2010). “Heaven's Prisoners”, p.156, Hachette UK
“The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.”
“we already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development ...”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“You can exercise vigorously and eat junk and get by. But you can't eat perfectly and not exercise. Look at many athletes today; they are human garbage cans. They eat anything, but they exercise so hard they burn it up. But why not exercise and put the right fuel in too?”
“I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.”
“If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.”

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