"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Information Quotes #Debate Quotes #Understood Quotes

“Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.”
“Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.”
“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.”
“Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.”
“Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.”
“There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.”

Source : Emma Restall Orr (2012). “The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing
“Atheistâ€™s denial of Godâ€™s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theistâ€™s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting Godâ€™s existence.”
“Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.”

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