"The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned."

-- Luther Burbank

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“Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.”
“I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.”
“Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.88, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.”
“I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.”

Source : Andrew Taylor Still (1897). “Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy”
“...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.”

Source : Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage
“A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.”
“Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.65

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