"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy."

-- Dan Barker

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“When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.”
“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”
“I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisk". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.
“Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Jan 02, 2014
“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
“God sees hearts as we see faces.”

Source : George Herbert (2010). “Priest to the Temple, Or, the Country Parson His Character and Rule of Holy Life, with Selected Poems from the Temple”, p.21, Lulu.com
“In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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