"Whispering makes a narrow place narrower."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Whispering Quotes

“I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.”
“The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.”
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.”
“I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.”
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
“Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.”
“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.”
“The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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