"Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold."

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Source : Paul Kurtz (2010). “Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Secularism”, p.298, Prometheus Books

Paul Kurtz

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“Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.”
“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
“The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta write a song today, I have a title" and all of that, and sometimes inspiration just happens, almost like "Sugar, Sugar" and a couple of the other songs. But basically, I just started playing the piano, and I'm not a great piano player.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.
“[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.”
“An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley (2002). “How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa”, p.31, Courier Corporation
“Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.”
“I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.”
“Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.”

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