"In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not."

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Source : Joaquin Miller (1996). “Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History”, p.415, Heyday

Joaquin Miller

#Life And Love Quotes #Men Quotes #Two Quotes

“Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. Itâ€™s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.”
“Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.”
“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.”
“What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.”
“While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.”
“Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: Thatâ€™s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing whatâ€™s going on.”
“One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is." My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.”
“To shine is better than to reflect.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.220, Spectra

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