"[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty."

-- Mikhail Bakunin

#Jealous Quotes #Religion Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.”

Source : YouTube Channel "R2Agent"/"Randy Pausch addressing the CMU 2008 graduating class", www.youtube.com. May 19, 2008.
“I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.”
“Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.”
“It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.”
“The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
“I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.”
“Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he read. He was, at the end of the day, a politician: politics were his heaven, said William Herndon. But Lincoln did take comfort in ideas and books, more so than almost any other president, and he went to books and ideas in moments of perplexity to sort things out. Philosopher, no, but thoughtful and "surprisingly well-read" for his day.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.”

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