"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Atheist Quotes #People Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

Source : Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE
“I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.”
“There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.”
“A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.”
“The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.”
“I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.”
“Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.”

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