"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Apology Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Faults Quotes

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”

Source : "Daughters of Eve". Book by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192, 1930.
“for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.”
“We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.”
“Helping another person gives one the deepest pleasure in the world.”
“Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. â€œBiological evolution isâ€¦ change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next”
“Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.”
“To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.”
“There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.”

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