""Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you."

-- Robert M. Price

#Mean Quotes #Choices Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.”

Source : "Dodd slams Google over legislatoin" by Ted Johnson, variety.com. December 8, 2011.
“Christianity is wild. Itâ€™s intimate. Itâ€™s heartbreaking and soul-mending. Itâ€™s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.”
“I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.”
“Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.”
“There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up -- the cold air coming down -- and where they meet is your typical frontal location.”
“The best way to preserve a childâ€™s vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.”
“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.”
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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